responsibility to do everything in our power to keep americans safe and to keep the doors of opportunity open. and if we do, then one year from now, not only would our economy and our security be stronger, but maybe the best and the brightest from around the world who come to study here would stay and create jobs here. maybe companies that play by the rules will no longer be undercut by companies that don't. maybe more families who have been living here for years, whose children are often u.s. citizens, for our neighbors and our friends, and whose children are our kids' friends and go to school with them and play on ball teams with them. maybe those families will get to stay together. but much of this only happens if americans continue to push congress to get this done. so i've told speaker boehner that even as i take those steps