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Inside the Supreme Court’s chambers on Monday, eight justices will consider whether President Obama abused the power of his office by issuing executive actions to allow millions of undocumented immigrants to work in the country legally and protect them from deportation.
Regardless of how the justices answer that question, their ruling is certain to inflame the volatile immigration debate in the 2016 presidential campaign. The decision will also help determine whether Mr. Obama has a chance to redeem his legacy on immigration, or see it marred beyond repair.
“If he wins, then overnight he goes from the president with the most deportations to the great liberator,” said Kevin Appleby, the senior director of international migration policy at the Center for Migration Studies of New York. “If he loses, I’m afraid historians won’t give him much credit for making the effort.”
The ruling is not likely to come until June, a wait that will be excruciating for the White House, which has been caught between angry demands from Republicans for more border enforcement and rage among Latinos who expected more from Mr. Obama.
A victory in the Supreme Court for Mr. Obama would allow millions of immigrants here illegally to come out of the shadows and stay in the country, but it would also be certain to provide new political ammunition for Donald J. Trump and Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, the Republican presidential candidates who have used anti-immigrant rhetoric to rally support during the primaries.
Administration officials say a late-spring surge of Central American migrants crossing the southern border — something that has happened before — could create a sense that the border is out of control at precisely the time that the Republican candidates are seeking to capitalize on the issue to bolster their campaigns.
Mr. Obama announced his executive actions in late 2014 in a program called Deferred Action for Parents of Americans, which was aimed at as many as five million people in the country illegally. But the program was blocked by courts after Texas and 26 other states challenged it as an overreach of presidential authority.
If the court rules against Mr. Obama, or if it splits 4 to 4, it will immediately end the president’s efforts to revamp the nation’s immigration laws.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/16/u...gration-ruling-wont-end-political-tussle.html
So, we wait till June.
Regardless of how the justices answer that question, their ruling is certain to inflame the volatile immigration debate in the 2016 presidential campaign. The decision will also help determine whether Mr. Obama has a chance to redeem his legacy on immigration, or see it marred beyond repair.
“If he wins, then overnight he goes from the president with the most deportations to the great liberator,” said Kevin Appleby, the senior director of international migration policy at the Center for Migration Studies of New York. “If he loses, I’m afraid historians won’t give him much credit for making the effort.”
The ruling is not likely to come until June, a wait that will be excruciating for the White House, which has been caught between angry demands from Republicans for more border enforcement and rage among Latinos who expected more from Mr. Obama.
A victory in the Supreme Court for Mr. Obama would allow millions of immigrants here illegally to come out of the shadows and stay in the country, but it would also be certain to provide new political ammunition for Donald J. Trump and Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, the Republican presidential candidates who have used anti-immigrant rhetoric to rally support during the primaries.
Administration officials say a late-spring surge of Central American migrants crossing the southern border — something that has happened before — could create a sense that the border is out of control at precisely the time that the Republican candidates are seeking to capitalize on the issue to bolster their campaigns.
Mr. Obama announced his executive actions in late 2014 in a program called Deferred Action for Parents of Americans, which was aimed at as many as five million people in the country illegally. But the program was blocked by courts after Texas and 26 other states challenged it as an overreach of presidential authority.
If the court rules against Mr. Obama, or if it splits 4 to 4, it will immediately end the president’s efforts to revamp the nation’s immigration laws.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/16/u...gration-ruling-wont-end-political-tussle.html
So, we wait till June.
