BY STATESMAN STAFF
newsroom@idahostatesman.comJanuary 16, 2015
President Barack Obama will make a Boise stop as part of a national tour discussing themes from his State of the Union address Tuesday, according to the White House.
A Friday announcement of the visit did not specify Obama’s topics or why he chose Boise as part of his tour. Also not yet known is anything about tickets or how to attend the speech. Those details were not expected to be available Friday.
One possible topic could be immigration. Idaho leads the nation in the percentage of immigrants who could be eligible for Obama’s recently announced deferred deportation program, according to the Pew Research Center in Washington.
The president has also been the focus of a lobbying effort by conservationists to declare a national monument in the Boulder and White Cloud mountain ranges in Central Idaho.
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President Barack Obama will make a Boise stop as part of a national tour discussing themes from his State of the Union address Tuesday, according to the White House.