Daily Border Bulletin- Obama's Speech Belies Similarities and Differences with Senate Principles, and Border Progress

Daily Border Bulletin is up! Today's stories include:

NYTimes: Obama urges speed on immigration plan, but exposes conflicts- Seizing an opening to rewrite the nation’s immigration laws, President Obama challenged Congress on Tuesday to act swiftly to put 11 million illegal immigrants living in the United States on a clear path to citizenship.

Washington Post: Want tighter border security? You’re already getting it- Legislators have failed to pass a sweeping immigration overhaul for more than five years. But there’s one piece of the 2007 immigration reform bill that they’ve managed to accomplish: pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into border security.

Similarities and differences between Obama, Senate proposals- President Barack Obama endorsed a framework for immigration reform Tuesday that largely mirrored one unveiled a day earlier by a bipartisan group of senators — with a few important differences.