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(21 Nov 2014) Emotions ran high as immigrant rights activists, families and elected officials across the United States watched President Barack Obama's televised announcement on immigration reform on Thursday night.
Supporters of immigration reform rallied and watched the speech outside the White House.
As advocates praised the president's plans and Republicans slammed his action as an overreach, community organisations and friends held watch parties to listen to the president's speech- including about a dozen groups who watched on a large screen on the streets of downtown Los Angeles.
During his speech, Obama invited a showdown with newly empowered Republicans in Congress, ordering far-reaching changes to the US immigration system that will protect nearly five million people from deportation while testing the limits of his presidential powers.
In a televised speech, the US President described the most sweeping changes to fractured immigration laws in nearly three decades.
He said that taking executive actions were a "commonsense" plan consistent with what previous presidents of both parties had done.
Immigrants living illegally in the United States would be saved from deportation by receiving work permits and millions more would remain in limbo.
Obama sought to break a stalemate in America's long-simmering debate over immigration by cutting out Congress, confronting Republicans and all but ensuring that the contentious debate will carry on into the 2016 presidential campaign.
Furious Republicans, who took full control of Congress in January after capturing the Senate from Democrats, warned that Obama would face serious consequences for what they described as an unconstitutional power grab.


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