WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama is going before an immigrant audience in Tennessee to pitch his executive action on immigration.
The president plans to speak and take questions from the audience at an immigrant community center in Nashville called Casa Azafran.
The White House says Obama will continue to urge Congress to pass an immigration overhaul.
But with that unlikely, Obama last month took executive action. His measures will extend deportation relief and work permits to some 4 million immigrants in the U.S. illegally. It mostly would affect those who have been in the country more than five years and have children who are U.S. citizens or legal permanent residents.
Republicans are hoping they can use their funding leverage to force Obama to roll back his decision.