Politico -- Carrie Buddoff Brown and Seung Min Kim
President Barack Obama will announce Thursday that he is shielding about 5 million undocumented immigrants from deportation, circumventing Congress to provide the most sweeping changes to immigration policy in decades.
Obama released a video Wednesday previewing his primetime speech and his Friday trip to Las Vegas.
“Everybody agrees our immigration system is broken,” Obama said. “Unfortunately, Washington has allowed the problem to fester for too long. What I am going to be laying out are the things I can do with my lawful authority as president to make the system work better, even as I continue to work with Congress.”
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