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ClydeR
06-23-2016, 05:15 PM
In case you haven't heard, the Supreme Court's even number of judges could not reach a decision of Obama's regulations allowing illegal parents of children born in the US to stay in this country with their children. Their inability to get a majority either for or against means the decision will stand of a judge in Texas who overturned the regulations.


Donald Trump is commending the Supreme Court’s decision that let stand a lower court ruling stopping President Barack Obama’s efforts to shield millions living in the U.S. illegally from deportation.

More... (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/the-latest-obama-to-speak-about-immigration-decision/2016/06/23/13550780-3958-11e6-af02-1df55f0c77ff_story.html)


The Supreme Court’s split effectively has killed the president’s effort to protect parents of children who are in the country legally and expand a program that benefits people who were illegally brought into this country as children.

Trump has vowed to deport all of the roughly 11 million people living in the country illegally.


Will it be a big election issue? Only if the candidates can find a simple way to explain it. Chances are that most of you don't know what the case was about. What was it exactly? Let's ask Wikipedia..


Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA), sometimes called Deferred Action for Parental Accountability, is a planned American immigration policy to grant deferred action status to certain Undocumented immigrants who have lived in the United States since 2010 and have children who are either American citizens or lawful permanent residents. Deferred action is not full legal status but would come with a three-year, renewable work permit and exemption from deportation.

More... (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferred_Action_for_Parents_of_Americans)