Roberts quoted Obama’s 2012 remark that, under the law, he could not broadly extend relief to millions of immigrants who were here illegally.
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In 2014 President Obama signed executive orders shielding roughly four million people from deportation and allowing them to work in the US.
This is the case for Araceli, an unauthorized immigrant who was brought to the USA from Mexico as a child. “Particularly the state of Texas argues that they have to issue driver’s licenses and that’s going to cost the state of Texas money and therefore they should not be injured in that way”, Sanders said. “While Congress has been unable to advance a bill, we hope the Supreme Court will uphold the constitutionality of these programs as a first step toward protecting millions from deportation, including thousands of undocumented South Asians”. A lower court ruling has stopped implementation of the actions that could affect more than 4 million undocumented immigrants. What is the significance of that decision?
ARCELIA HURTADO is NCLR’s immigration policy adviser.
In other words, the court seemed evenly split. Another 16 Democratic-led states and the District of Columbia said they would reap billions of dollars in additional taxes and would see other benefits, including increasing trust between immigrant communities and police, if the programs are allowed to take effect. That’s because a tie would leave in place the appeals court ruling that blocks the plan from being implemented. Reporting at the supreme court. If it is ruled in Texas’s favor, does that start to limit the executive branch’s power?
A Tucson woman who said she came to the United States 16 years ago in search of a better life said her greatest fear is that she will be deported and be separated from her son who was born in the U.S. Congress, the president and the elected branches of government should be the ones to decide.
“How is it possible to lawfully work in the United States without lawfully being in the United States?” asked Justice Samuel Alito during the argument. ABC’s Jim Avila on the arguments inside that courtroom.
Much of the arguments dealt with the logistics of the president’s power. It is a group that feels strongly in this case.
“I was actually able to came out of the shadows and express that I’m here because I really do deserve this, I’m a good citizen, we want to prove ourselves”, says Hernandez. The administration maintains that Texas has no legal right to be in court at all because it has not suffered the concrete injury that is required to bring a lawsuit. A decision is expected by June. Tonight, on the doorstep of the supreme court, in perhaps its biggest case of the term. This is a tough case. But many conservatives take issue with the process as well as the procedure.
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Throughout Florida, a coalition of immigration activists held actions noting the event, including members of SEIU Florida, LULAC and the Florida Immigrant Coalition, who met on Monday afternoon in Centennial Park in Ybor City.
