Thursday, the Supreme Court split 4-4 on whether to override Hanen’s injunction against the implementation of the program while the feds and the state of Texas fight it out in his court.
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In the Valley some 147,000 undocumented immigrants would’ve benefited from the President’s Executive Order on immigration. Texas led the coalition of 26 states challenging the President’s power to implement the plan on his own without Congress.
Nayoung Ha, the organizing director for the Korean American Resource and Cultural Center, says Asian-Americans need to work to make sure that happens.
With 11 million undocumented migrants living in the USA, the administration argued that it’s impossible to deport everyone here illegally.
President Obama, speaking at the White House, said, “For more than two decades now our immigration system, everybody acknowledges, has been broken”.
The 4-4 tie among Supreme Court justices on Wednesday leaves a glimmer of hope for those pushing for immigration reform, because the issue was not shut down. The issue will be sent back to the lower court now.
As many as 300,000 Georgia immigrants are in fear after a tie vote in the Supreme Court blocked a plan that would’ve shielded them from deportation and made them eligible for work permits.
Immigration will be one of the primary battle lines in the election contest between Mrs Clinton and Donald Trump, who will be encouraged by the ruling. They came representing the thousands of undocumented immigrants in North Carolina who are once again living in limbo- including little Geraldine Rodriguez’ mother and father.
However, republicans applauded the decision to uphold a lower court’s ruling against the Obama administration.
The other program is known as Deferred Action for Parents of Americans, or DAPA, and would provide deportation protections for an estimated several million people who have lived in the US for at least five years and are parents of citizens or legal residents. It’s the rule of law. “In fact, we have been compiling a list for the past year and half of those that we can’t help because the laws are such”, said NeSmith.
“Sooner or later, immigration reform will get done”, Mr Obama said, acknowledging that he will probably not be the president to see it through.
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“This is a win for the Constitution, this is a win for Congress”, Ryan told the press.
