Supreme Court Tie Dooms Obama Immigration Policy
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The U.S. Supreme Court split 4-4 Thursday over a challenge to President Barack Obama’s immigration policy, a result that prevents the administration from putting the program into effect during the rest of his term.
The ruling deals a blow to both a White House that has used executive measures to push forward immigration reform in the wake of congressional inaction and to Obama, who has sought to rewrite a legacy that had some in Latino activist circles calling him “the deporter-in-chief.”
There have been more than 2 million deportations in Obama’s tenure.
The president on Thursday stressed that people who have been in the country for a long time and are otherwise law abiding will remain lower deportation priorities.
He added that the tie was “heartbreaking” for millions of immigrants.
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