The status of about four million undocumented immigrants hangs in the balance as the U.S. Supreme Court weighs arguments for and against President Barack Obama’s executive order shielding many of them from deportation.
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The legal challenge, United States v. Texas, No. 15-674, was brought by the Lone Star State and 25 others, and some of the high court’s conservative members on Monday appeared to side with their positions, including Chief Justice John Roberts. If the justices deadlock in their ruling, due by late June, it will keep intact a lower court block of the plan, dealing a bruising defeat to Obama during his a year ago in office and pushing the issue to the next president.
A couple dozen people gathered in front of the Governor’s mansion in Raleigh on Monday to voice support for President Obama’s executive order expanding immigrant protections.
While it’s impossible to glean how the court will ultimately decide the case, the eight justices seemed evenly split along ideological lines during oral arguments, leaving a real possibility of a 4-4 tie.
“He has gone outside the bounds of his Article 2 authority and has “changed the law”, said Rep. Steve King, a Republican from Iowa.
“It will be so hard not to have family here”, she said.
The bulk of immigrants who live in the United States illegally “are here whether we want them or not”, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said. The programs could help roughly 4 million people get work in the U.S. Authorizing it would also grant “lawful presence”.
– Dozens of demonstrators from Florida rode sixteen hours to Washington, D.C.to chanted in Spanish outside the U.S. Supreme Court, “Supreme Court, listen, we are in this fight together”.
Reid said again that not only was the president’s executive action legal but the only option left by congressional inaction.
According to Kligerman, there are about 200,000 undocumented immigrants in Pennsylvania, and about half of them would benefit if the court upholds the president’s action. “It’s about keeping the courts out of policy and keeping the states from meddling in federal policy, the kinds of arguments that the Obama administration is making”.
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Specifically, Mr Obama sought to spare from deportation parents who entered the USA illegally but who then had children within its borders and to expand an existing programme for those bought into the country illegally by their parents when they were still children.
