Hack.

Via The Hill:

President Obama used a visit to South Korea on Friday to make a push for immigration reform, saying “the value of our immigrants … is central to who we are.”

Obama took the opportunity at a naturalization ceremony for roughly two dozen people who were becoming U.S. citizens, to highlight why the immigration system needs to be overhauled.

“If there’s anything this should teach us, it is that America is strengthened by our immigrants,” Obama said at the National War Memorial, one stop on a week-long visit to Asia. “What makes us Americans is something more than just the circumstances of birth, what we look like, what god we worship. Rather it is a joyful spirit of citizenship.”

The president said this is one of the reasons it is time to reform the nation’s immigration system, since Americans need to “keep in mind the value of our immigrants to our way of life. It is central to who we are.”