Barack Obama’s efforts to shield millions of illegal immigrants from deportation suffers a major setback at the US Supreme Court on Thursday — one the president said was “heartbreaking” for those affected.
Justices in the under-strength court are split 4-4 over Obama’s bid to change immigration policy by executive action, thus leaving lower court rulings blocking the effort in place.
The court normally has nine members, but Justice Antonin Scalia died in February and the Senate has refused to vote on Obama’s nominee to replace him.
The deadlock leaves Obama’s immigration policy in limbo, like the four million undocumented immigrants who stood to be awarded US work permits under the politically controversial plan.
“The fact that the Supreme Court wasn’t able to issue a decision today doesn’t just set the system back further — it takes us further from the country that we aspire to be,” Obama says shortly after the ruling was issued.
— AFP
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