White House Blog: The President Addresses the Nation on Immigration Reform

By Josh Earnest, CP Guest Contributor Thursday, November 20, 2014

U.S. President Barack Obama answers a reporter's question about North Korea after naming U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Loretta Lynch as his pick to replace retiring Attorney General Eric Holder, in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, November 8, 2014. Obama said on Saturday the United States was grateful for the safe return of Americans Kenneth Bae and Matthew Todd Miller, who were being held in North Korea and praised Director of National Intelligence James Clapper for his role bringing them home. | (Photo: Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)

Our immigration system has been broken for decades -- and every minute we fail to act, millions of people who live in the shadows but want to play by the rules and pay taxes have no way to live right by the law and contribute to our country.

Tonight, President Obama will address the nation to lay out the executive actions he's taking to fix our broken immigration system. You can watch the President live tonight at 8 p.m. ET at WhiteHouse.gov/Live.

This is a step forward in the President's plan to work with Congress on passing common-sense, comprehensive immigration reform. He laid out his principles for that reform two years ago in Del Sol High School in Las Vegas -- and that's where he'll return on Friday to discuss why he is using his executive authority now, and why Republicans in Congress must act to pass a long-term solution to immigration reform.

The Senate passed a bipartisan bill more than 500 days ago, and while the country waits for House Republicans to vote, the President will act -- like the Presidents before him -- to fix our immigration system in the ways that he can.

So tune in tonight at 8 p.m. ET to learn what the President is doing to ensure that America will continue to be what it has always been: a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants.