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PHOENIX — Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon, in a keynote address in Washington, demanded Congress to break its stalemate on immigration reform and relieve local jurisdictions of burdens caused by incoherent federal policies.

"I am calling upon this Congress and the next one, this president and the next one, to make the dual issues of border security and immigration reform their first order of business," Gordon said Thursday during a conference of the Police Foundation, a private organization that seeks to improve policing techniques across the country.

Gordon accused federal lawmakers of not comprehending the intensity of the problems festering nationally.

He declared his support for comprehensive reforms that would strengthen border controls while providing illegal immigrants with a path to legalization and establishing a guest-worker program.

Gordon blamed Congress for the flourishing trade in smuggling illegal immigrants that he said has forced the city to spend millions to help combat the smugglers and related crimes such as extortion and kidnapping schemes.