President speaks to around 1,600 at Del Sol high schoolSays: ‘We’re not a nation that kicks out strivers and dreamers’Obama sells immigration plan amid Republican outrage – as it happenedBarack Obama: ‘We are and always will be a nation of immigrants’Barack Obama defended his sweeping immigration reform on Friday, at a rally in Las Vegas designed to mobilise support for his decision to shield almost five million people from deportation.The president told a rapturous, mostly latino crowd the executive order he announced on Thursday would protect hardworking parents who were living in the US illegally.