The SCOTUS agreed to hear the administration’s defense of President Obama’s immigration executive actions, which were challenged by Texas and more than two dozen other states.
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Holt then harped on the fact that the President’s plans on immigration “have been blocked by lower courts” and the Supreme Court acting as “the administration’s last chance to put into affect measures that would shield some four million undocumented migrants from deportation”.
“In deciding to hear this case, the Supreme Court recognizes the importance of the separation of powers”, Paxton said.
“If you meet the criteria, you can come out of the shadows and get right with the law”, Obama said in 2014.
Texas is leading 26 mainly Republican-dominated states in challenging the Democratic administration’s immigration plan. But the Supreme Court’s decision to hear a significant election-year review on the issue, and to rule on it by late June, ensures the topic will remain prominent in the presidential campaign all the way up to Election Day in November.
Fourteen months ago, Mr. Obama ordered the creation of a program meant to allow as many as five million illegal immigrants who are the parents of citizens or of lawful permanent residents to apply for a program sparing them from deportation and providing them work permits. The Court’s decision to examine the case was heralded by Republicans, including Sen.
Stephanie Izaguirre, an immigration lawyer in Colorado Springs has seen more than 200 families since the president’s announcement in 2014.
“It would at least be a way where folks can stay in the country and work and not fear of losing their jobs or being separated from their families”, said Navarro.
In Arizona, nearly half of the 300,000 immigrants estimated to be here illegally are directly impacted by Obama’s action, because they are parents of American-born children. Messengers did amend the resolution, at the suggestion of the SBC Resolutions Committee, to state, “This resolution is not to be construed as support for amnesty for any undocumented immigrant”. “The lives of millions of children and families in America have been disrupted and held in limbo-a situation the president’s action was created to alleviate-and they deserve the Court’s careful and prompt attention”.
But the White House contends Obama’s actions were within its prosecutorial discretion.
The case originated in the Western District of Texas and lost its second appeal at the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans.
Reith says they’ve been working since November, sending letters and videos to the Supreme Court, trying to prove the “DAPA” Program’s value.
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In a press release, unusual said the case concerns not just immigration, but what he said is the Obama administration’s efforts to act outside its authority.
