“Today’s decision is frustrating to those who seek to grow our economy and bring a rationality to our immigration system”, he said.
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“Obama has deported more people than any USA president before him, and nearly more than every other president combined from the 20th century”, said John Lugo, the Leader of ULA.
“In addition to throwing millions of families across our country into a state of uncertainty, this decision reminds us how much damage Senate Republicans are doing by refusing to consider President Obama’s nominee to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court”, Clinton said in a statement.
The substance of the President’s orders on immigration were well crafted and considered; however, by pushing them through without congressional approval, he lost two years during which he might have worked toward a permanent solution.
“Today’s decision keeps in place what we have maintained from the very start: One person, even a president, can not unilaterally change the law”, Ken Paxton, Texas attorney general, said in a statement after the ruling.
In November 2014, Obama announced several points of immigration reform in an executive order.
“I believe that this country deserves an immigration policy that reflects the goodness of the American people”.
The justices’ one-sentence opinion on Thursday effectively kills the plan for the duration of Obama’s presidency.
“In November when elections come, we’re going to remind people what we’re made of”, said Eliana Fernandez, 28, an Ecuadorian immigrant who now lives in Long Island and workes as a case manager for the nonprofit Make the Road NY.
And millions of undocumented immigrants and refugees wait along with them. He says the Supreme Court got it right. “Congress did not pass a law that said he could just arbitrarily do what he was doing”.
It’s not clear how many of those people live in Doña Ana County. Chamber spokesman James Garcia said about 25 percent of Arizona’s Hispanic businesses are owned by immigrants.
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The decision by the Supreme Court will likely fuel the acrimonious debate on immigration reform, which has intensified as the national election campaigns continue. “They just want an opportunity to support their families”, said NeSmith. Mr Trump’s immigration policy is to deport all 11 million people in the United States illegally, and build a wall on the border with Mexico.
