Latino leaders urge immigration reform

Even as the White House held a summit on immigration Thursday, Latino leaders in Los Angeles called on President Obama to quickly press immigration reform legislation despite reports the votes aren't there in Congress for its passage. Tony Castro in the Daily News.

"Rest assured that the individuals gathered at this conference are impatient for action now on a broken immigration system," Arturo Vargas, executive director of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials, said on the opening day of the group's annual conference.

"We are ready to work with this president, this Congress, in partnership to assure that this reform occurs. We need it now. It can't wait. We need it in the first term of this president."