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President Barack Obama told Hispanic leaders he hasnt given up on changing the nations immigration laws before the end of the year and said their votes in November will build political power.

Addressing the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute in Washington tonight, Obama said he understood frustration among Hispanics, who overwhelmingly backed him for election, that more progress hasnt been made on immigration.

Fixing our broken immigration system is one more big thing that we have to do and that we will do, he said at the Washington Convention Center. Tonight I ask you to keep believing.

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Obama is seeking to limit potential political backlash from Hispanic voters after delaying taking administrative action on immigration until after next months elections as Democrats struggle to hold their majority in the Senate.

The president had made a promise and he should have delivered on that promise, said Brent Wilkes, national executive director of the League of United Latin American Citizens. So were disappointed. I think a lot of people in the community are angry.

Obama in September backed off his pledge to change U.S. immigration policies, which had been a stated priority for the previous several months as a surge of unaccompanied minors entered the U.S. over the Mexican border. He cited extreme politicization after being unable to secure congressional support for his planned changes.

Republican candidates in some closely contested states, including Arkansas, where Democratic Senator Mark Pryor is running for re-election, accused Obama and Democrats of supporting amnesty for undocumented immigrants.

Seven of the 21 Senate seats being defended by Democrats are in states that Obama lost in the last presidential election. Republicans need a net gain of six seats to gain control of the Senate.

Cristina Jimenez, managing director of United We Dream, a Washington-based group that advocates for immigrant youth, said in a statement that Obamas decision is politically motivated and said it showed protecting politicians is more important than protecting my mother and father, and millions more, who are under the imminent threat of deportation.

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President Obama is taking heat for mocking Fox News over its coverage of his health care overhaul.

The president took the shot Thursday during a speech at Northwestern University in Illinois, as he defended his six-year record in office on the economy, on health care and on the budget.

He claimed fewer Republicans are "preaching doom on deficits" because deficits are lower.

On ObamaCare, he added: "There's a reason fewer Republicans, you hear them running about ObamaCare --- because while good, affordable health care might seem like a fanged threat to the freedom of the American people on Fox News, it's turns out it's working pretty well in the real world."

The president's team, shortly afterward, drove the point home on Twitter:

But Tim Graham, director of media analysis with the Media Research Center, slammed the president for his remarks.

"Now ask yourself: Did President George W. Bush ever trash a news network like that?" he wrote on NewsBusters. "Did he ever make a major speech and take a whack at Keith Olbermann? Republicans avoid that, because you can upset the entire liberal media with a remark like that.

"But Obama bashing Fox is completely acceptable, apparently."

Graham recalled how Bush was pilloried in the media after being caught on a hot mic calling a New York Times reporter a "major league a-hole."

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WASHINGTON President Barack Obama went before a Hispanic crowd Thursday fervently promising to fight on immigration reform until the job is done, including taking executive action by the end of the year, and then imploring Latinos to "have my back."

"If anybody wants to know where my heart is or whether I want to have this fight, let me put those questions to rest right now, I am not going to give up this fight until it gets done," Obama said in a much anticipated speech falling in the middle of Hispanic Heritage month.

Though he delivered the speech at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute's annual gala to a largely friendly crowd, Obama's words were intended for a larger community of Latinos and immigrants who were left deflated by his decision to postpone executive action that could relieve some immigrants from the threat of deportation.

He has taken some harsh criticism that has left some questioning whether Latinos should support Democrats in the midterms or show up at the polls altogether.

Obama said it was no longer a question of whether he'd take executive action for immigrants here illegally, but when. But he also said for any action to last and extend beyond his remaining two years in office, he needs support so it sustains and lasts.

"I'm going to need you to have my back. I'm going to need you to have my back," Obama said emphasizing the point. "... the fact of the matter is no matter how bold I go, nothing I can do will be as comprehensive and lasting as the Senate bill."

Then Obama got to the heart of what has been roiling the Latino community since he delayed executive action at the end of summer, putting it off until after elections.

"If we want that legislation to happen sooner rather than later then there is one more thing I need you to do, I've got to have you talk to your constituents and your communities and you've got to get them out to vote."

"Si se puede, si votamos. Yes we can if you vote," Obama said.

Demonstrators with the groups National Day Laborer Organizing Network, Workers United of Washington and the #Not1More Campaign, protest an increase in deportations and US President Barack Obama's immigration policies outside the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute's Gala Dinner at the Washington Convention Center on Oct. 2.

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