Nearly five million people living illegally in the US can escape deportation under sweeping changes
to the US
US
President Barack Obama will unveil his plan, which he is enacting without
Congress, in a televised address.
Republicans
have argued the action is beyond his authority and relations with the president
will be poisoned.
There are
about 11m illegal immigrants in the US
"The
president is taking an important step to fix our broken immigration
system," said a White House statement before Mr Obama's speech.
He will
pledge to crack down on illegal immigration at the border and require certain
undocumented migrants to pass a criminal background check and pay taxes in
order to register to stay temporarily in the US
Overall,
the action could lift the threat of deportation for up to five million
undocumented migrants, the White House said.
Mr Obama has pledged for months to
take steps on immigration after the Republican-led House of Representatives
blocked a bipartisan immigration bill passed by the US Senate in 2013.
But
Republican House Speaker John Boehner has said Mr Obama is "playing with
fire" if he moves ahead with his immigration plan.
The
president has said he would still like to work with Congress on a comprehensive
bill.
Source: BBC
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