Supreme Court divided over Obama’s immigration plan, blocks proposed programmes

That’s the opinion of the Arizona Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. In either case, legal challenges to executive action under her administration would come to a court that would have a majority of Democratic-appointed justices and, in all likelihood, give efforts to help immigrants a friendlier reception.

“In November, Americans have to make a decision about what we care about and who we are”, he declared, in a nod to the White House race between Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump. He said there is a dampening effect in terms of the economic impact they could make.

The issue of illegal immigration has featured prominently in the presidential campaign.

Obama took the action after House Republicans killed bipartisan immigration legislation, billed as the biggest overhaul of USA laws on the matter in decades and providing a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants, that was passed by the Senate in 2013.

The Supreme Court’s decision drew mixed reactions. “And the fact that the Supreme Court wasn’t able to issue a decision today doesn’t just set the system back further, it takes us further from the country that we aspire to be”, President Obama said.

Ali Noorani, executive director of the National Immigration Forum, said, “With the Supreme Court deadlocked, the litigation on the president’s executive actions will continue, millions of families remain in limbo and our immigration system remains broken”.

As its name suggests, the program would have given the undocumented parents of citizens or permanent residents a shot to avoid deportation and receive work permits.

MS has some 200,000 Latinos, many immigrants, along with significant numbers of immigrants from Africa, Asia, Europe and the Mideast. He lamented that policies he announced two years ago “can’t go forward at this stage until there is a ninth justice on the court to break the tie”. Diaz is among more than a half-dozen young people working at the law firm who benefited from the president’s 2012 executive order known as deferred action for childhood arrivals, or DACA.

“As long as you have not committed a crime, our limited immigration enforcement resources are not focused on you”, Obama said.

His unilateral executive action bypassed the Republican-led Congress.

“The courts ruled that the President’s amnesty order undermined the rule of law”. Protester Eduardo Sainz of the nonprofit advocacy group Mi Familia Vota said the Supreme Court’s deadlock brought tears to his eyes.