Warns time running out on immigration reform

Obama tells police chiefs and top law enforcement officers that bitter party politics ahead of November’s polls threaten hopes of moving a reform bill, currently stalled in the US House of Representatives.

We have got this narrow window — the closer to the mid-term elections, the harder it is.

Obama gives Republican House Speaker John Boehner credit for backing the idea of immigration reform, but lashes out at a “handful of House Republicans” he says are blocking legislation getting to the floor. The Senate bill includes a path to eventual citizenship for 11 million illegal immigrants, tighter border monitoring and an overhauled work visa program.