Obama Initiative gives new breath to immigrants

After listening to President Barack Obama on Thursday to offer protection from deportation to five million undocumented immigrants in the United States, Catia Paz, a Salvadoran with 13 years of living illegally, is relieved: "Now I'll be quiet."

As her two daughters are US citizens, Peace will benefit from the spring of a new plan to legalize their status and obtain a work permit for three years and not be deported.

The move is part of an Obama program will benefit about half of the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the US, and is a unilateral attempt by the president to make "fairer" the "broken" immigration system, following the failure in Congress of a complete renovation.

With projectors or tablets in hand to follow Obama's speech, activists, undocumented immigrants and US citizens gathered in cities across the country.

Despite the low temperatures in Washington, dozens of people celebrated the announcement at the White House with American flags and signs that said "Thank you, President Obama."

"Five million members of our community have been saved," cried euphoric Gustavo Torres, president of the pro-immigrant association Maryland House shortly before the speech.

For Paz, which in 2011 was designated to be expelled from the country, Obama's order is a "victory" that gives a twist to your life.

The president's plan is a political bombshell that Republicans promised to fight back.

"I was about to leave the country" and now "I'll be quiet, worry that they are going to deport me," he says in front of the White House.

In the parking lot of the headquarters of the Immigration Coalition Florida, Miami, fifty people hand clutched, embraced, while the president spoke.

"For me it's a change from day to night. But as something weird because there are lots of people around me who is fighting and does not qualify, "said activist Maria Bilbao, organization Familias Unidas (United Families).

This Argentina who has lived 14 years undocumented, but will benefit because his son is a legal resident, said the most important thing for her is that you can now "operate without fear me deported."

Others felt sadness for those left out of the group that will benefit.

"One family is my family. My parents and I have lived in America for almost nine years undocumented, "said the Mexican, 21, Aldo Martinez.

"Live every day the fear and dread of you return to the house and my parents will not be there because they were deported by President Obama," said Martinez, one of the 600,000 young people who benefit from DACA, a program launched in 2012 will be expanded under the new guidelines.

To the Peruvian Carmen Rivas, who was out of administrative action, from now is "keep fighting until reform is achieved for all."

"Because the people who are working and fighting for this country deserve a chance," he said in Washington this 48 year old woman who lives with her husband and two children for 11 years in the United States.

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