PHOENIX — Scores of immigrants and their families clapped politely as they watched President Barack Obama unveil long-awaited steps to temporarily shield millions of undocumented parents of U.S.-born children and legal residents from deportation, while others wept for family members and millions more people left out of the immigration policy reforms.

“It’s a huge relief for us, but sad for those who can’t apply,” said Leticia Ramirez, 29, a Mexican mother of four U.S.-born children who qualified for relief under the plan Obama set out in a broadcast Thursday night. Ramirez watched the president’s speech with nearly 200 immigrants and their families packed into the offices of immigrants’ rights group Puente Arizona in Phoenix, where sheriff’s deputies have carried out sweeps to arrest the undocumented.

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