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Do you support the Supreme Court’s decision to review Obama’s immigration order?
Cruz, a Harvard-trained lawyer and former Supreme Court clerk who once served as his state’s top advocate before the high court, said it was significant that the justices will decide whether Obama violated the U.S. Constitution’s requirement that presidents “take care that the laws be faithfully executed”.
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“Today’s announcement that the Supreme Court will hear arguments on US v. Texas is a step forward for the millions of undocumented immigrants who remain trapped in the shadows”, said Senator Hirono.
Facing insurmountable opposition in the Republican-controlled Congress, Obama has repeatedly resorted to the issuance of presidential executive orders to take actions on critical issues such as healthcare reform, immigration, and gun control.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican said “The court should affirm what President Obama said himself on more than 20 occasions: that he can not unilaterally rewrite congressional laws and circumvent the people’s representatives”.
However, Federal Courts blocked implementation of those programs after 26 states – including Arkansas – filed complaints.
On Tuesday, White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters that the president’s executive action was “clearly within the confines of his authority as president of the United States”.
The possible nullification of the Obama order will likely affect millions of Latinos, who are increasingly becoming politically influential and could determine the outcome of the presidential election.
Obama’s 2014 executive order lifted the threat of deportation against immigrants with no criminal record whose children are USA citizens, but upset a large number of states which argued that the president had overstepped his bounds.
But the Supreme Court has to first over-rule the federal court’s decision, which stopped the actions a year ago.
The Supreme Court is expected to rule on the case in Summer of 2016.
“This is not a Supreme Court that rubber-stamps executive orders by any means”, she said.
Texas led a legal challenge to the initiative and was soon joined by more than two dozen other Republican-leaning states. The U.S Justice Department appealed that decision, but the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans upheld the ruling last November. Democratic candidates have vowed to defend or expand the president’s actions, while Republican candidates have promised to end protections for undocumented immigrants. DACA protects immigrants who have been residing in the US since before the age of 16. Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid of Nevada said that “law-abiding men and women continue to live in constant fear of being separated from their children”.
While immigration activists generally have been supportive of Obama, they have criticized his administration for raids this month that resulted in the arrests of more than 120 immigrants from Central America who came to the country illegally since 2014.
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Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton has expressed support for Obama’s executive actions, but said that her policies would “go further”, including a path to citizenship.