President Barack Obama plans to take administrative actions in the coming months to address problems with the country’s immigration policies, he said Monday — a clear acknowledgment that a legislative overhaul is effectively dead this year...

At the afternoon meeting, “I think we were just sharing the grief and pain of what this means for so many people,” said Jim Wallis, the president and founder of Sojourners, said in a phone interview. “It wasn’t just kind of a political, factual, here’s-what-we’re-doing-next, bullet point meeting.”