So as we mark the one-year anniversary of President Obama’s now stymied executive order to offer relief to millions of undocumented immigrants and we await the Supreme Court’s ruling the matter, our message to the world is that we intend to “Vote, Defend and Win”.
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If the court agrees to hear and decide the case by late June, and if the justices side with the administration, that would leave roughly seven months in Obama’s presidency to implement his plans. The three-judge panel in New Orleans consisted of Judge Jerry Smith appoint by Republican Ronald Reagan, Smith also wrote the opinion. Now, the Obama administration promises to take the issue to the Supreme Court, following this most recent court battle. She will be one of the estimated 1.5 million American voters who are expected to have DAPA-eligible family members in 2016, according to NBC News. More than 720,000 young immigrants have been granted permission under that program to live and work legally in the United States. “We need top to bottom reform of our immigration laws”.
“A divided court of appeals has upheld an unprecedented nationwide injunction against implementing a federal immigration enforcement policy of great national importance, and has done so in violation of established limits on the judicial power”, as he presented the appeal.
The 45-page appeal challenges lower federal court rulings that blocked Obama’s efforts to reform parts of the U.S. immigration policy via executive order.
The program, announced in November 2014, applies to people whose children are either USA citizens or legal permanent residents and who meet other requirements. “And it will place a cloud over the lives of hundreds of thousands of people who came to the United States as children, have lived here for years, and been accorded deferred action…”
Twenty-six states, led by Texas, are challenging the actions arguing that the President exceeded his authority.
The millions protected under the administrations executive actions would be undocumented immigrants- primarily parents of American citizens and lawful permanent residents.
Verrilli also argues that past Supreme Court cases afford the president broad discretion in enforcing the immigration laws. The government said it could adequately represent the women’s interests.
Homeland Security chief Jeh Johnson said that law enforcement and customs agents now focus on convicted criminals, rather than hunt for people who came here to find work. Trump ruined the Republican brand, snuffing out hope for Bush who had hoped he’d get the strong Latino support that his brother George W. Bush received in 2000.
Circuit Judge Carolyn Dineen King dissented.
They are happy it’s been one year since the president made an announcement they say their communities had been waiting for decades to hear. “This case essentially boils down to a policy dispute”.
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The filing questions the right individual states have to sue the federal government, Lyle Denniston, a Supreme Court scholar and contributor to SCOTUSblog, wrote Friday morning.
