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WASHINGTON. — The US Supreme Court on Thursday delivered a heavy blow to White House’s immigration programme by remaining in place a lower court’s ruling that blocked the programme. By voting 4-4, the Supreme Court on Thursday left in place a previous ruling by the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeal against US President Barack Obama’s controversial immigration executive action in 2014.
Speaking at the White House, President Obama called the Supreme Court’s deadlocked decision “frustration to those who seek to grow our economy and bring a rationality to our immigration system.”
“The fact that the Supreme Court wasn’t able to issue a decision today doesn’t just set the system back further,” said Obama. “It takes us further from the country that we aspire to be.”
Meanwhile, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton called the deadlocked decision “unacceptable” and took a sharp jab at her rival in the general election Republican Donald Trump.
“This decision is also a stark reminder of the harm Donald Trump would do to our families, our communities, and our country,” said Clinton in a statement.
Trump had proclaimed from the very beginning of his candidacy that he would implement tougher immigration policies, pledging to deport millions of illegal immigrants and to build a wall along US-Mexico border.
In 2014, Obama resorted to his executive authority to circumvent Congress and pushed forward immigration reforms by seeking to provide as many as five million illegal immigrants with work permit. — Xinhua.
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