LAKE BUENA VISTA,
Fla. (AP) -- President Barack Obama, in a strikingly personal
appeal, renewed his call for an overhaul of America's immigration laws
before a supportive Latino audience Friday.
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He portrayed rival Mitt
Romney as an obstacle to measures that would give young illegal
immigrants a path to citizenship.
"These are all our kids," he declared.
To
a standing ovation, Obama spoke of his directive last week that
immigrants brought illegally to the United States as children be
exempted from deportation and granted work permits if they applied.
Reflecting
on his own life as the first African-American president, he said: "When
I meet these young people, all throughout communities, I see myself.
Who knows what they might achieve? I see my daughters, and my nieces,
and my nephews."
"That's the promise that
draws so many talented, driven people to these shores. That's the
promise that drew my own father here," said Obama, whose father was
Kenyan.
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