Suzanne Gamboa is a national reporter for NBC Latino and NBCNews.com
After nearly a decade of living in fear that he might be forever separated from his U.S. citizen wife, Alex Paz Medrano was giving thanks on Tuesday as President Joe Biden announced a plan for them to stay together. Biden announced an executive action to protect about half a million undocumented spouses of American citizens from deportation. Anticipated for months, the plan drew applause and excitement among immigration advocates and many Democrats who have been pressing Biden to take the step.
Rep. Nanette Barragán, a California Democrat who chairs the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, said the action for spouses, along with an anticipated announcement of work visas for some college-educated immigrants and those with program was first announced in 2012 by the Obama-Biden administration.' and won with heavy Latino support. A similar program he created, known as DAPA, would have given legal status to parents of U.S. citizen children, but a court killed it.
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