from WNYC studios. I'm Brian Lehrer. This is my daily politics podcast. It's Thursday, June 20th.

We'll talk now about President Biden's new executive order on immigration, the newest one,

which would help certain long-time

undocumented residents of the U.S. stay here and specifically get protection from deportation.

It would grant protection from deportation for certain undocumented spouses and stepchildren of U.S. citizens and new work authorizations for the so-called

dreamers, the people who are brought here as undocumented kids in a certain generation, but really

grew up as Americans, but don't have legal status. Now, everyone, including we on this show,

are talking about the politics of this,

coming right after Biden's border closure. But for this segment, we're going to look more

closely at who is actually covered by this latest announcement, and we're going to invite

phone calls from people in those categories if you want to describe how it

would affect your life or if you want to ask a question questions very much will be welcome

about how to apply or if you actually qualify and for that we are pleased to have back with

us alan wernick senior legal advisor to the program called cuny citizenshiphip Now. That's CUNY's Free Immigration Law Service

Program. Alan, thanks for coming on with us again. Welcome back to WNYC.

Brian, thank you so much for having me. I have not been 100% pleased with the coverage

of this issue, so I'm glad they have the opportunity to maybe clarify a few

points. Good. I'm excited to hear what you have to say. And Alan, I had a first question I was going to

ask you, but based on what you said a second ago, what do you want to jump in and clarify that you

think that people may be getting a misimpression about? Well, one thing is that I would say 80 to 90% of the people who are going to benefit

from this program can already get green cards based on some procedural changes under the

Obama administration. The difference is that it's more expensive. It takes four or five years longer, and the people

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