Vox Sentences: Obama's immigration plan is finally out. Now what?

1. Immigration, the day after

About 100 people gather to rally in support of President Barack Obama's executive action on immigration policy in Lafayette Square across from the White House. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

• Here's President Obama's immigration plan announcement, with transcript.

  [Vox / Dara Lind]

• The day after the speech, Obama urged Republicans to pass their own immigration plan if they don't like his.

  [NYT / Michael Shear and Ashley Parker]

• The history of executive actions on immigration, in one graphic.

  [Pew Research Center / Drew DeSilver]

• We can expect the plan to produce a slight economic boost, but Congressional action would do more.

  [Vox / Danielle Kurtzleben]

• Because people still need to apply, considerably fewer than the 4.3 million eligible people will actually wind up getting help.

  [New Republic / Claire Groden]

• The new program's acronym, IAEA, is seriously terrible for a whole number of reasons.

  [Vox / Dara Lind]

• 7 million people are still eligible for deportation.

  [Vox / Dara Lind]

• The administration will also extend visas to an additional 33,000 to 53,000 foreign tech entrepreneurs.

  [Vox / Matt Yglesias]

2. We're gonna need a bigger lawsuit

George Washington University Law School Professor Jonathan Turley, who's representing House Republicans. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

• House Republicans have officially filed suit against the Obama administration. See their complaint here.

  [Jonathan Turley]

• The suit, as expected, targets Obamacare's employer mandate, but also a lesser-known provision that pays some of poor people's out-of-pocket medical charges.

  [Vox / Sarah Kliff]

• Here's a table explaining how much families of various sizes and income levels receive from the program in question, known as "cost-sharing reduction."

  [CBPP / January Angeles]

• Past Congressional suits against the president have typically failed.

  [Vox / Andrew Prokop]

• The lawyer handling the case is Jonathan Turley, a left-leaning critic of executive power.

  [Vox / Andrew Prokop]

3. Misc.

• The band Interpol was trapped in a tour bus for over 50 hours due to Buffalo's huge snow storm.

  [Stereogum / Chris DeVille]

• None of the 50,000 words in the 1939 novel Gadsby contain the letter "e"; here's what an e-less book reads like.

  [The Atlantic / Nikhil Sonnad]

• Nevada's new Assembly Speaker hates Martin Luther King Jr., conflates gay men with pedophiles, and once argued that the Clinton administration was behind the Oklahoma City bombing.

  [Reno News & Review / Dennis Myers]

• You can now pay Google to stop showing you ads on sites using the company's ad service.

  [Washington Post / Caitlin Dewey]

• A tl;dr version of the Bible.

  [Jason Kottke]

4. Verbatim

• "One worker at Pinterest recently wanted the company to build a zip line to a nearby bar, while an Adobe employee asked the maker of Photoshop and Illustrator design software to buy a Slip ’N Slide for workday use."

  [WSJ / Rachel Feintzeig]

• "If fishermen clap just the right way, dolphins will herd fish into the desired areas of fishermen, in muddy lagoon areas."

  [Marginal Revolution / Tyler Cowen]

• "A fair system for both sides is a feminist concern."

  [Alexandra Brodsky to BuzzFeed / Katie J.M. Baker]

• "Although voters may insist in the importance of their values and ideologies, they actually care less about policy and more that their team wins."

  [Washington Post / Lilliana Mason]

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