Source: MEATINGPLACE, 3/14/14

President Barack Obama has ordered a review of U.S. immigration enforcement practices to see how current procedures can be conducted “more humanely,” the White House said.

The president told members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus during an Oval Office meeting that he has asked Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson to do an inventory of the department’s current practices, according to a White House statement.

Obama said he would work with members of the CHC to put pressure on congressional Republicans to pass comprehensive immigration reform as soon as possible.

“The president emphasized his deep concern about the pain too many families feel from the separation that comes from our broken immigration system,” The statement said.

Republican congressional leaders have conceded that a yearlong effort to overhaul the country’s immigration laws was unlikely to pass this year.

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