Those fighting for immigration reform have a "friend" in the White House, declared a socialist activist who is an ally and recent adviser to Obama.

West told a crowd that he comes from "a people who didn't come here voluntarily. Oh yeah. I come from a people that came on the slave ships. I come from a people who have been lynched in the South and degraded in the North."

"But I brings the message to say that I love you, too," he added. "I am here with you, too. We gonna fight for justice. ... Immigration reform now!"

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