I haven't seen much of this interview noted, but it was with Univision's Maria Elena Salinas and he gave some remarks on health care.
SALINAS: Mr. President, the National Council of La Raza says that we cannot have true health care reform unless it includes undocumented immigrants, legal residents, and immigrant children. These are the groups that are most likely to be uninsured. How do you address this?
OBAMA: As I said before, the best way to deal with undocumented immigrants is to make them documented.
SALINAS: But what happens to legal residents who have followed the rules?
OBAMA: As I just said, when it comes to legal residents we want to find ways that they can access preventative services, enrollment services, regular treatments. So, I think there’s a difference between legal immigrants who work here — they should have access to medical services. Undocumented workers who are here illegally — we want to create comprehensive immigration reform so they can get on a path to citizenship. Until they do, we can’t reward them with some of the benefits which quite frankly cost us a lot of money. There will be a lot of resistance when people who are citizens and legal residents aren’t getting these services and we’re giving them to undocumented workers.
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The transcript is from a website and appears to reflect what is said, although his first statement goes by too fast to verify word for word from listening myself.
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