President Obama on Immigration in His State of the Union Speech

In his State of the Union speech last night, President Obama called for immigration reform, urging Congress to "fix our broken immigration system." He pointed out that immigration reform would grow our economy and shrink our deficits by about $1 trillion in the next two decades - two issues that have been of concern for most of his presidency so far. His speech, however, did not offer any specific solutions.

A meaningful immigration reform will require bipartisan support - something that has eluded the Congress so far. A new House Republican proposal offers some solutions but keeps many without an option to seek permanent residency or citizenship in the future. This is unlike the Senate bill proposed in June 2013, which offers path to citizenship to many currently undocumented immigrants.

Will 2014 by the year when we finally see a fix for our broken immigration system and will it offer meaningful solution that will keep families together and keep our economy going? We certainly hope so.