Do you support the Supreme Court’s decision to review Obama’s immigration order?

It’s now up to the Supreme Court to decide.

The court will decide if President Obama is actually allowed to block the deportation of 5 million immigrants who are in the USA illegally. It would allow them to apply for work permits, provided they were parents of U.S.-born children or legal permanent residents, passed a background check and paid fees.

Under the plan, those people in the US illegally who are parents of USA citizens and permanent residents would be allowed to remain here and receive a work permit.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), running third in the GOP 2016 primary, said he’s “confident SCOTUS will agree Obama executive orders are unconstitutional”.

De Anda received those benefits in 2013 through the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA.

U.S. Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada welcomed the Supreme Court’s decision Tuesday to review a challenge to President Barack Obama’s presidential powers. More than 700,000 people have since benefited from the program.

The U.S. Supreme Court’s move to take up a challenge to President Obama’s immigration executive actions sets up another potentially politically loaded ruling just months before the presidential election.

However, Kennedy joined the court’s liberal wing to rule in favor of marriage equality in 2015.

The Supreme Court will determine whether the President adhered to his constitutional obligation to “take care that the Laws be faithfully executed” in addition to whether the orders are constitutional.

The addition of that question is seen as “a good omen” by many conservatives, like Jay Sekulow of the American Center for Law and Justice. “At the least, we should be able to focus our resources on a particular group”. Both courts have kept the program from being implemented.

If overturned, programs like DAPA would give temporary residency to undocumented immigrants who are parents: as long as they’ve been here since 2010 or before, and their children are already legal citizens.

The case is scheduled for April, and a decision should be made at the end of June.

Obama issued the executive action in November 2014 to assure undocumented immigrants they “can come out of the shadows”. “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”. This will be the administration’s last chance to put into affect measures that would shield some four million undocumented migrants from deportation.

The State of Texas et al.

As illustrated in the map below, a total of 38 states have weighed in on the issue: 26 have joined against the Obama administration and 12 have filed briefs in defense of the administration. That, he said, would be “a recipe for a government paralysis”.

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 law.