ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION)<br/> <br />President Barack Obama vowed on Monday to take executive action to address the "broken" U.S. immigration system after hopes of passing a broad reform bill in Congress officially died.<br/> <br />Republican John Boehner, speaker of the House of Representatives, informed Obama last week that the House would not vote on immigration reform this year, a White House official said, killing chances that a wide-ranging bill passed by the Senate would become law.<br/> <br />Administration officials in the meantime will make recommendations on what the president can do unilaterally without congressional approval to address problems with the immigration system.<br/> <br />Obama said he has directed border officials to allocate resources to increase security along the U.S. border.<br/> <br />Amid a controversy over tens of thousands of unaccompanied children from Central America surging across the southern border, Obama said most will be returned to their home countries once the
