President's Immigration Announcement Watched Closely Here
(CBS) -- Every time she leaves her house to go to work or even the grocery, Faviola Delgado's three children fear she may not return.
"My kid one time came from school and he told me, 'Mom, you're not going to work because maybe if you go, you may not come back from your job,'" the undocumented resident tells CBS 2's Derrick Blakley.
Delgado came here, with her mom, from Mexico City in 1996. Her three children—Edjuardo, Eva and Alejandro—were all born in Chicago.
"For my kids and for me, the United States is our home. I cannot go back to Mexico and give my kids a life," she says.
For her and millions more, President Obama offered some measure of hope. He tackled immigration on his own Thursday, announcing plans to protect millions of immigrants from deportation while challenging his opponents to pass comprehensive reform.
But attorney David Appelgate, a Hearltand Institute policy advisor, believes Obama is violating the constitution.
He says the only option for Republicans is to pass their own, permanent reforms.
"I think that's exactly what the president is doing—he's challenging Congress to act," Applegate says.
He says any court challenge to the president's executive orders would likely fail, and an impeachment attempt is out of the question. Meantime, Delgado says she's looking forward to the president's speech. It's a moment for which she says many have fought very hard.