Welcome to the news hour. President Biden today unveiled an executive action that

offers deportation protections to undocumented spouses and children of

U.S. citizens. The news hour first reported last week that the White House was expected to make the announcement.

At a White House event marking the 12th anniversary of DACA, that's the Obama era action that protects young undocumented immigrants,

President Biden laid out his plans.

For those wives or husbands and their children who have lived in America for a decade or more,

but are undocumented, this action will allow them to file a paperwork for legal status in the United States.

Allow them to work while they remain with their families in the United States.

Let's be clear, this action still requires undocumented spouses to file all required legal paperwork

to remain in the United States.

Requires in the past of criminal background checks, and it doesn't apply to anyone trying

to come here today.

The move comes after President Biden implemented a crackdown on migrants seeking asylum

when border encounters cross a certain threshold.

Our White House correspondent Laura Barone Lopez has been

covering this and joins me now. So Laura you first broke the news last week that

this executive action would be coming. It's now here. Tell us a little bit more

about what exactly this does for

undocumented people in the US. President Biden said today that ultimately

this is about keeping families together and this is the biggest relief action

by a president on the since the DACA program the

deferred action for childhood arrivals from 2012 and this uses a process

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