Hello and welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service coming to you live

from London I'm no Alan McCaffey. President Biden has just announced new

measures that would protect hundreds of thousands of undocumented spouses of US citizens from deportation.

We'll hear from one person likely to be affected and ask if it will be a vote winner in this year's presidential campaign.

Also in the program, demonstrations on the streets of Kenya

against the government's financial reform package.

And we'll hear from the Hayetan singer Lela McKella

on the inspiration behind her new album.

You want the crops without the plow.

You want the rain without the thunder. You want the ocean. The title track is inspired by the great abolitionist Frederick Douglas who worked tirelessly

to end slavery in the United States.

Be patient, he said. In the weeks ahead I will speak to how we can make our immigration system

more fair and just.

After a series of hard immigration policy announcements, President Joe Biden has announced

a new policy that would protect hundreds of thousands of undocumented spouses of US citizens

from deportation. Here's President Biden announcing the new policy in the last hour.

Second action I'm announcing today it was about keeping families together.

My dad used to have an expression.

She Joey, family is about the beginning, middle, and the end.

About keeping couples together who are married,

where one spouse is US citizen,

the other is undocumented.

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