Obama Vows Tougher Enforcement With Deferred Deportations
The president's plan will provide an easier path to citizenship for approximately five million undocumented workers.
U.S. President Barack Obama listens to a question during a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2014.
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President Barack Obama lifted the immediate threat of deportation and opened the way to better jobs for about 5 million undocumented immigrants, thrusting a long-simmering fight to the forefront as he takes on a Republican-controlled Congress.
After a televised address last night outlining his actions, Obama planned to travel today to Nevada, a state with a fast-growing Hispanic population emblematic of Latinos’ rising political power in presidential battleground states.