Obama Uses Nashville Backdrop to Make Appeal on Immigration

*An estimated 40,000 undocumented immigrants in Tennessee are eligible to stay in the U.S. under Obama’s executive action. VL

By Angela Greiling Keane, Bloomberg News

President Barack Obama tried today in Nashville, Tennessee, to build support for his executive actions on immigration in a Southern city where the Hispanic population has doubled in the past decade.

He told his audience that the actions he announced last month may be temporary because the next president “could do something extremely damaging” and reverse his changes.

“I do recognize there are controversies around immigration,” he said. “We have had these concerns since the Irish, Italians and Poles were coming to Boston and New York.”

Nashville is Obama’s latest stop on his campaign to rouse both political backing for, and participation in, his plan to allow as many as 5 million undocumented immigrants to stay in the U.S. He was greeted by protesters holding signs opposing the immigration changes, across the street from the building where he delivered his remarks.

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[Screenshot courtesy of White House YouTube]

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