President Obama will outline his executive action to protect up to 5 million undocumented immigrants from deportation during a televised speech Thursday night and travel to Las Vegas Friday to promote the initiative.

“Everybody agrees that our immigration system is broken. Unfortunately, Washington has allowed the problem to fester for too long,” Obama said in an online video posted Wednesday of his 8 p.m. address to the nation. “So what I’m going to be laying out is the things I can do with my lawful authority as president to make the system work better even as I continue to work with Congress and encourage them to get a bipartisan, comprehensive bill that can solve the entire problem.