A decision on whether Obama can choose to not expel the undocumented parents of citizen children will change their lives – and conservatives’ chancesThe US supreme court – already sent to issue momentous opinions in cases involving abortion rights and public sector unions in the middle of a presidential election campaign – just added another the hottest of hot-button issues to its docket on Monday: immigration. And though the court will nominally decide whether President Obama’s major executive action on immigration – which limited the deportation of undocumented immigrants to those with felony convictions and without dependents with the suitable to remain – was legal,the decision is a potential time bomb for the Republican Party, whose elites remain concerned approximately their shrinking demographic base.
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Source: theguardian.com