In 2014, President Barack Obama signed 12 executive orders directing various agencies in the
departments of State, Justice and Homeland Security to refrain from deporting some 4 million adult
immigrants illegally present in the United States if they are the parents of children born here or legally
present here and if they hold a job, obtain a highschool diploma or its equivalent, pay taxes and stay
out of prison.
Unfortunately for the president, the conditions he established for avoiding deportation had been rejected
by Congress.
In response to the executive orders, 26 states and the House of Representatives. . .
The President, the Court and Immigration
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