US Supreme Court Will Review Immigration Executive Action

But the Supreme Court has to first over-rule the federal court’s decision, which stopped the actions a year ago. Under the executive actions, immigrant adults in the country illegally would be allowed to stay if they have children who are US citizens or lawful permanent residents, according to NBC News.

In a statement, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said he welcomes the Justices decision to review the case.

The justices voted to hear an appeal from Obama’s lawyers, who are challenging decisions by a federal judge in Texas and the USA 5th Circuit Court of Appeals that blocked his immigration order from taking effect.

Facing insurmountable opposition in the Republican-controlled Congress, Obama has repeatedly resorted to the issuance of presidential executive orders to take actions on critical issues such as healthcare reform, immigration, and gun control.

“Given the long-standing precedent and the history of jurisprudence in the immigration area, this is a simple matter that the program is clearly legal”, Beardall said. The DAPA order “does not regulate states or require states to do (or not do) anything”, he said.

“This does signal hope for a positive outcome for the over 4 million people nationwide that would be impacted directly by the president’s pending executive action on immigration”.

The court also added another issue to the case: whether the president violated the constitutional duty to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed”.

Meanwhile, the leading Democratic candidate, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, has vowed to expand Obama’s effort to protect illegal immigrants from deportation. New applications would nearly certainly be halted, but immigration advocates predicted the next president would find it harder to retract work permits from those approved before Obama leaves office.

The Supreme Court announced today they will hear United States v. Texas early next week and are expected to hand down a ruling in June.

If the court sides with Obama, he would have until his term ends in January 2017 to implement the immigration plan.

But the much larger program for parents of US citizens wasn’t almost as far along when the court shut it down.

“I’m scared that if I leave for work or take the kids to school, immigration officials will come get me”, said Amparo.

In 2012, Obama gave this “deferred action” status to about 600,000 young people who were brought to this country illegally as children.

Republican presidential candidates have talked tough against illegal immigrants. The Republican frontrunner, billionaire real estate mogul Donald Trump, has called for deportation of the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the country and building an impenetrable wall along the country’s southern border with Mexico. “But Congress has appropriated the funds to remove only a fraction of that population in any given year”, the administration said in its Supreme Court petition.