Obama takes oath, calls for unity, engagement
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U.S. President Barack Obama delivers his inaugural address after he was sworn in for the second term during the presidential inauguration ceremony on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington D.C., the United States, on Jan. 21, 2013. [Xinhua] |
![U.S. President Barack Obama delivers his inaugural address after he was sworn in for the second term during the presidential inauguration ceremony on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington D.C., the United States, on Jan. 21, 2013. [Xinhua]](http://images.china.cn/attachement/jpg/site1007/20130122/001ec949fb59126828bf06.jpg "U.S. President Barack Obama delivers his inaugural address after he was sworn in for the second term during the presidential inauguration ceremony on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington D.C., the United States, on Jan. 21, 2013. [Xinhua]")
Second term wish-list
An estimated 800,000 people attended Monday's inauguration and parade in a quite chilly weather, about half of the crowd who flooded to the capital four years ago to watch the historic inauguration of the first African American President.
Andrian Pedroza, executive director of Partnership for Community Action group, came from the state of New Mexico to "be part of the president's second term inauguration" at the capital.
"Definitely immigration reform is on the top of my wish-list for the president," said the second-generation of a Mexican immigration family and father of a four-year-old girl. He hopes the big moment has finally come to address the huge challenges of immigration.
He thought the Obama administration has set the immigration reform a priority in the early months of a second term, hence would have a good opportunity to pass in the Congress.
Harpreet S. Sandhu, a member of Sikh community and a former city council member from Richmond, California, attended the historic inauguration in 2009 when Obama was sworn in to be the first African American President.
"Of course, there were hundreds of thousands of people coming to the capital four years ago, but I am still excited to be here the second time," said him.
Sandhu said gun control is definitely among the issues that should be looked at during Obama's second term, particularly following a series of mass shooting tragedies in his first term, including a shocking shooting rampage at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin last August.
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