HOUSTON – In a 4-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court today deadlocked in the case of United States v. Texas. It left in place a lower court order preventing the president from shielding millions of people from deportation via the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans policy (DAPA) and an expanded Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy (DACA). The American Civil Liberties Union joined an amicus brief in this case.
The following can be attributed to Edgar Saldivar, senior staff attorney for the ACLU of Texas:
“With today’s 4-4 deadlock, the Supreme Court issues no judgment, leaving tens of thousands of undocumented Americans in a precarious — but temporary — legal limbo to be now determined in the District Court. While the 2012 DACA policy remains unaffected by today's inaction, immigrants will keep battling for just immigration policies and we will continue to defend their civil rights and civil liberties.”
The ruling is at: https://www.aclu.org/legal-document/united-states-v-state-texas-ruling.
