THE LARGEST crowd of demonstrators in years gathered external the Supreme Court on April 18th over United States v Texas,a case in which 26 states are challenging Barack Obama’s executive orders to relieve 4.3m undocumented immigrants of the immediate threat of deportation. Waving American flags and holding signs reading “withhold Families Together”, “We Belong Together and “Families Fight Back” the activists’ message was clear: the justices should uphold Mr Obama’s 2014 orders designed to prevent immigrant families from being torn apart. Under the programme known as Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA), or parents whose children have American citizenship or a green card would be eligible to apply for protection from deportation and authorisation to work whether they agree to background checks and can prove they’ve been in the country since 2010. An undocumented alien with deferred-action status would be able to work and pay taxes and would not live in fright of being separated from his children whether,during a routine traffic stop, his unlawful presence were discovered.
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Source: economist.com