SCOTUS Will Rule On Obama’s Immigration Actions Ahead of 2016 Election

The court will consider undoing lower court rulings that blocked the President’s order.

The Supreme Court would likely hear the case in April and decide by late June.

Organizers believe the majority came to the USA when they were children or they have children that are now legal citizens.

The fate of President Barack Obama’s immigration actions is now in the hands of the Supreme Court.

The states have argued, among other things, that this executive action is tantamount to a broad policy change and thus required a “notice and comment” rule-making process. And they are consistent with the actions taken by presidents of both parties, the laws passed by Congress, and the decisions of the Supreme Court.

With some of his major legislative initiatives suffocated by Republican lawmakers, the Democratic president has resorted to executive action to get around Congress on issues including immigration, gun control and the Obamacare healthcare law.

If the Supreme Court does side with the administration, that would leave only about seven months in Obama’s presidency to implement his plans.

“This will get to the Supreme Court calendar, where we hope that it will be resolved once and for all”, she said.

The State of Texas, acting on behalf of 26 states, challenged the program’s constitutionality and has won every legal challenge so far, the Associated Press reports. “So we would be concerned that a potential five million people would not benefit from this”. However, lower courts have said Texas has standing because it would be responsible for subsidizing costs like drivers licenses and work permits for 500,000 people if the program stands. “Texas would incur millions of dollars in costs”, the state said in its brief to the Supreme Court.

A win for the Obama administration would spur those on the right to push for the need to have a Republican in the White House to appoint more conservative justices.

“People do not cease to be our brothers and sisters because they have an irregular immigration status”.

Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid said Obama’s executive action relied on well-established constitutional authority. “Not just for our homes but in the U.S. We’d be stepping out of the shadow”.

The high court agreed to decide the legality of Obama’s unilateral action to shield more than 4 million illegal immigrants from deportation. Under pressure from critics, the government in December stepped up deportations of illegal immigrants with criminal records.

Republican candidate Donald Trump has proposed deporting all people who are living in the US illegally, an idea embraced by some GOP candidates and dismissed by others.

When he announced the measures 14 months ago, Obama said he was acting under his own authority because Congress had failed to overhaul the immigration system.

DAPA is an extension of Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), which allows undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children “and meet several guidelines” to apply for a work permit and protection from being deported.