The Big Conversation:

President Obama's major immigration announcement on Friday continues to reverberate through Texas.

Across the U.S., many immigrants and immigrant advocates have greeted Obama's executive order — which suspended the deportation of some immigrants brought to the country illegally as children — with joy, though some tempered their optimism with caution, saying specifics of the directive remain unclear.

In Texas, Republicans, as expected, slammed the announcement. Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst on Friday called the move a "blatant political ploy." His opponent in the U.S. Senate race, Ted Cruz, called it "cravenly political."

But as the Tribune ...

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