A Mexican man living in Denver received a reply from the White House after writing a letter to President Barack Obama asking him to stop "unjustified deportation" of undocumented immigrants living in the United States.

"I love this country," Arturo Garcia said according to EFE. "I never thought, not for a minute, that President Obama would answer my letter, where I expressed to him my concern about the inefficient immigration system, but he did answer me and I'm grateful for it."

Garcia made a portrait of six presidents starting from George Washington to Obama, to express his gratitude to the 44th president of the United States.

"It's a way of thanking those who have changed history, since those changes led to the democracy and to the freedom that we enjoy today," Garcia wrote in a letter to the president.

After being asked to halt the deportation of 11 million undocumented immigrants, Obama answered Garcia's letter saying he regrets that Republican leaders in the House of Representatives "refused" to vote for the 2013 immigration reform bill.

The president recently made an executive order to protect a few million immigrants from deportation this year. Obama did not back down from his decision although Republicans have been fighting it.

"Before the end of the year, we're going to take whatever lawful actions that I can take," Obama told reporters at the White House in November."I think it's fair to say that I've shown a lot of patience and tried to work on a bipartisan basis as much as possible and will keep doing so. I've consistently said that it is my profound preference and interest to see Congress act on a comprehensive immigration reform bill," he added.

The president assured the country that he will no longer wait for Republicans to decide what measures they would take.

"What we can't do is just keep on waiting," Obama said. "There's a cost for waiting."

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