Obama gives hope to illegal Irish in US

Undocumented Irish people who have lived for some years in the United States and have children born in the country are likely to benefit most from President Obama’s plans to overhaul immigration rules.

And for some it will raise hope they will finally, after many years, be able to return home without being barred from re-entering the US.

President Obama, speaking in Las Vegas early this morning Irish time, laid out his plans to give some 5m illegal immigrants a chance to live and work in the US free of the fear of deportation.