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President Obama encouraged lawmakers to act on immigration reform but vowed Wednesday to take action before the end of the year if they delayed.

It is my profound preference and interest to see Congress act on a comprehensive immigration reform bill that can strengthen our borders, and streamline our immigration system, Obama said during a press conference at the White House.

The president said he would reach out to Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), GOP Senate Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Democratic leaders on a timetable to act. But he cautioned that he is not going to just wait.

President Obama is weighing executive actions on immigration but GOP senators have warned him against acting unilaterally.

Obama said Boehner had made a sincere effort to get a bill through the House earlier this year but said he would not hesitate to act alone.

I feel obliged to do everything I can under my executive authority to make sure we dont keep on making the system worse, Obama said.

Whatever executive actions that I take will be replaced and supplanted by action by Congress. You send me a bill I can sign those executive actions go away, he added.

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Obama to act on immigration reform before the end of the year

PM said a Tory majority was needed to overhaul Brussels migration rules Mr Cameron has vowed to make immigration centrepiece of EU renegotiation He claimed migrant benefits already cut but admitted further reform 'tough'

By Tom McTague, Deputy Political Editor for MailOnline

Published: 06:02 EST, 5 November 2014 | Updated: 06:02 EST, 5 November 2014

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The Liberal Democrats have stopped the Government from really delivering on immigration reform, David Cameron claimed today.

The Prime Minister said he needed a Tory majority after the next election because he had not been able to go ahead with all the things we wanted to do.

Mr Camerons remarks come after he pledged to make reform of European freedom of movement rules the centrepiece of his Brussels renegotiation if he wins the next election.

David Cameron (centre) with the Tory candidate for Rochester and Strood Kelly Tolhurst (left) were shown around the Crossrail site in Chatham, Kent, by site manager Michael O'Neil yesterday

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The Crossfire Kids is an original online series from WPBT2. Please watch, share and subscribe. This original mini-doc examines the battle for immigration reform and the effect it has on those...

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GWEN IFILL: Tonights outcomes could broaden the definition of winner and loser. There are also major issues hanging in the balance. Tonight, we look at prospects for two of them, first, immigration.

Joining us are two activists intimately on both sides of the issue of who gets to come to the U.S., who gets to stay and who gets sent back.

Brad Botwin is director of Help Save Maryland, a group that wants to tighten the nations borders. And Cristina Jimenez is co-founder of United We Dream, which works on behalf of undocumented immigrants.

Welcome to you both.

Ms. Jimenez, the movement on immigration reform has basically ground to a halt in Congress and at the White House. What would this election do to change that?

CRISTINA JIMENEZ, United We Dream: Well, I think that whats going to be critical here is that whatever the outcomes are for these elections will have a lot of impact for 2016.

So the question is, would Democrats and the president continue to deport people? Will the president take administrative or executive action on immigration, as he promised on June 30, and/or will the Republicans continue to promote the mass deportation agenda, as they did with Mitt Romney and have continued to do so?

GWEN IFILL: Brad Botwin, is it a mass deportation agenda were talking about?

BRAD BOTWIN, Help Save Maryland: I dont believe so.

I think, tonight, we will see the Senate flip to Republican, which is actually a good thing for the immigration issue, because you will have a more logical approach. I think the president and the Democrats in the Senate tried to do effectively another Obamacare for immigration, just a mass bill.

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