After Being Heckled, Obama Offers to Meet Protesters Backstage After Speech

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President Obama was heckled by two men in his speech in Austin today, in which he discussed the economy and again pushed for immigration reform.

  About a half hour into the speech, two men stood in their seats near the front of Austin's Paramount Theater and began shouting.

  At first, the President spoke over them, but later said to them, "sit down guys, I'm almost done.'

  The men continued shouting, and the audience tried to shout them down, and two Austin Police Officers emerged, but the President asked that they not be removed, and he promised to speak to them later, which he apparently did.

 It was unclear what the men were heckling the President about.

  The speech was the standard Obama stump speech, saying that the economy is improving, and cited a U.T. Austin student who wrote to the President about the struggles of her and her parents.