Supreme Court Blocked President’s Unconstitutional Action

Because the high court couldn’t agree, a lower court’s ruling blocking his executive actions remains in place, putting an indefinite freeze on what the White House had hoped would be the heart of the Obama’s legacy on immigration. “Just look around. Look who is preparing your food”. She says immigrants who are parents of USA citizen children, or permanent resident children, would have benefited from this initiative.

Meanwhile, Mr Obama said the ruling was “heartbreaking” for the millions of immigrants.

Meanwhile, US Congressman Marsha Blackburn applauded the Supreme Court for sending “a powerful message”.

“Not only does this ruling halt the implementation of the president’s unconstitutional immigration actions, but it ensures that his administration will be prevented from implementing these orders for the rest of his term”, Pruitt said.

The administration argued that recipients of “deferred action” don’t receive lawful immigration status; they’re just notified that they’re not a deportation priority, so they can, in the administration’s words, “come out of the shadows”, and do things like apply for work authorization. The program would have allowed undocumented parents of US-born children to avoid deportation.

The issue has been largely discussed during the presidential campaign.

“And in November, Americans are going to have to make a decision about what we care about and who we are”. “When you get into the immigration question there is so many other things in this to discuss when you are talking about the effects of it”.

Meanwhile, Obama condemned the deadlock in a passionate address, saying the Supreme Court “is not able to function the way it’s supposed to”.

The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision strongly indicates that executive action on immigration on a widespread basis may be hard in the future and any chance of immigration reform may not be possible without Congressional involvement.

He said, “This split decision also makes clear what is at stake in November”.

That process will play out for at least another year, and the next president would decide whether to continue defending it in court.

Undocumented immigrants and advocates watched the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision live at the Houston office of Immigrant Families and Students in the Struggle, commonly known as FIEL by its acronym in Spanish.