The Latest: Trump commends Supreme Court immigration ruling

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By Associated Press June 23 at 2:53 PM
WASHINGTON — The Latest on the Supreme Court blocking President Barack
Obama’s plan to shield millions of immigrants in the U.S. illegally from
deportation (all times local):

2:45 p.m.

Donald Trump is commending the Supreme Court’s decision that let stand a
lower court ruling stopping President Barack Obama’s efforts to shield
millions living in the U.S. illegally from deportation.

The presumptive Republican presidential nominee says in a statement that,
“Today’s 4-4 Supreme Court ruling has blocked one of the most
unconstitutional actions ever undertaken by a president.”

He says the split decision “makes clear what is at stake in November.”

The Supreme Court’s split effectively has killed the president’s effort to
protect parents of children who are in the country legally and expand a
program that benefits people who were illegally brought into this country
as children.

Trump has vowed to deport all of the roughly 11 million people living in
the country illegally.

2:35 p.m.

Liberal organizations are pouncing on Thursday’s Supreme Court decision
blocking President Barack Obama’s policies to protect millions of people
here illegally from deportation.

The Latino Victory Fund and Priorities USA Launch have produced a 30-
second digital ad featuring a young woman who came to the U.S. illegally
as a child and was granted temporary legal status under Obama’s program.

Giancarla Rojas says in the ad that she would lose everything if Obama’s
program were taken away.

The ad also features the voice presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump
promising to terminate Obama’s executive order.

The digital ad is scheduled to start next week and run for 14 days in
Nevada, Colorado and Florida. All are battleground states with large
numbers of Hispanic voters.

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1:20 p.m.

The justices’ decision in an important affirmative action case produced no
real fireworks in the courtroom. Justice Anthony Kennedy announced the
majority opinion upholding the University of Texas’ admissions program,
which takes account of race, in a few minutes.

Justice Samuel Alito expressed his displeasure with the ruling by reading
a lengthy summary of his dissenting opinion, speaking for over 15 minutes.
In its written form, Alito’s dissent runs 51 pages, far longer than the
20-page majority opinion.

But while Alito’s words reflected frustration, his delivery was measured.
He called the majority’s decision “simply wrong.”

The court’s only two minority members, Justice Clarence Thomas, who is
black, and Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who is Hispanic, were impassive as
Kennedy and Alito read. Sotomayor has supported affirmative action while
Thomas rejects it.

___

1:15 p.m.

Attorney General Loretta Lynch is praising the Supreme Court’s decision to
affirm a University of Texas admission policy that takes race into
account.

Lynch says diverse student enrollment is a vital part of America’s
educational experience and creates a positive forum for scholarship and
discovery.

The justices voted 4-3 to let the university’s admission policy stand.
Race is among many factors in admitting the last quarter of incoming
freshman classes.

The outcome was dramatically altered by the death of Justice Antonin
Scalia, who opposed affirmative action.

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12:20 p.m.

President Barack Obama is reassuring millions of people that they don’t
need to fear immediate deportation.

The Supreme Court’s tie vote effectively kills Obama’s plan to shield
millions more immigrants in the U.S. illegally from deportation and
granted them work permits.

But Obama says the opinion doesn’t change his administration’s enforcement
priorities.

Obama says his administration will continue focusing its limited
enforcement resources on people who have committed a crime and that
deportation for long-term immigrants who aren’t criminals will remain a
low priority.

Still, Obama says the deadlock is frustrating for immigrants who want to
work and contribute to the economy. He says it’s “heartbreaking” for them.

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12:15 p.m.

For those listening to Supreme Court justices read summaries of their
opinions in the courtroom, the fact that the justices were split on the
president’s immigration plan slipped by some.

At the end of the session, after Justice Samuel Alito had finished reading
a lengthy summary of his dissent in a case about affirmative action, Chief
Justice John Roberts said that two cases had been affirmed by an equally
divided court, the way the court announces it has tied.

Roberts said nothing other than identifying the two cases by the numbers
and names the court refers to them by. The immigration plan case was: 15-
674, U.S. v. Texas.

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12:15 p.m.

Hillary Clinton says a tie vote by the Supreme Court blocking President
Barack Obama’s immigration plan is “unacceptable.”

Thursday’s ruling effectively kills Obama’s plan to shield millions living
in the U.S. illegally from deportation — a plan Clinton supports.

In a statement released by her campaign, Clinton defended the legality of
Obama’s plan, saying the ruling was “purely procedural.” But, she says,
it’s a reminder of the “harm Donald Trump would do” to immigrant families
and “how much damage” Senate Republicans are causing by refusing to
consider Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland.

She said as president, she would “do everything possible under the law to
go further to protect families.”

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12:15 p.m.

President Barack Obama is predicting that the U.S. immigration system will
eventually be overhauled.

He says it’s not a matter of “if,” but a matter of “when.”

Obama has commented after the Supreme Court deadlocked 4-4 on executive
action he took to expand a program shielding immigrants living illegally
in the U.S. from deportation.

Obama says the country deserves an immigration policy that reflects the
goodness of the American people.

He says he hopes that will be an outcome of the voting in November for
control of the White House and Congress.

___

12:05 p.m.

President Barack Obama is using the deadlocked Supreme Court opinion on
his immigration actions to hammer Republicans for refusing to confirm his
nominee to the Supreme Court.

Obama says Republicans are allowing partisan politics to jeopardize
critical issues. He says, “America should not let it stand.”


The president says his immigration actions can’t go forward until the
court has a ninth justice to break the tie.

Obama is also alluding to Republican Donald Trump’s call for building a
border wall with Mexico. Obama says the U.S. doesn’t need to wall itself
off and that immigration isn’t something to fear.

___

12 p.m.

President Barack Obama says the Supreme Court decision blocking his
immigration plan sets the system back and “takes us further from the
country we aspire to be.”

Obama says America has been a refuge for the world for more than two
centuries. He says it’s a diverse and inclusive nation because it’s a
nation of immigrants.

Obama sought to use his own authority to shield from deportation millions
of immigrants living illegally in the country.

The high court, which tied 4-4, effectively kills Obama’s plan for the
duration of his presidency.

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11:30 a.m.

President Barack Obama will speak from the White House at midday Thursday
about the Supreme Court vote on his immigration plan.

The White House says Obama will deliver a statement at 11:45 a.m. EDT from
the Brady Press Briefing Room. The statement was hastily arranged and
comes just before Obama departs Washington for a trip to the West Coast.

The high court’s tie vote effectively kills Obama’s plan for the duration
of his presidency.

___

10:40 a.m.

A tie vote by the Supreme Court is blocking President Barack Obama’s
immigration plan that sought to shield millions living in the U.S.
illegally from deportation.

The justices’ one-sentence opinion on Thursday effectively kills the plan
for the rest of Obama’s presidency.

A tie vote sets no national precedent but leaves in place the ruling by
the lower court. In this case, the federal appeals court in New Orleans
said the Obama administration lacked the authority to shield up to 4
million immigrants from deportation and make them eligible for work
permits without approval from Congress.

Texas led 26 Republican-dominated states in challenging the program Obama
announced in November 2014. Congressional Republicans also backed the
states’ lawsuit.


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