The United States Supreme Court announced on Tuesday, January 19, 2016 that they would rule by June of 2016 on the legality of President's Obama administration executive order that halted the deportation of more than four million illegal immigrants. It is estimated that around 11 million people reside without legal status in the United States. The United States Department of Homeland Security on average deports around 400,000 illegal immigrants each year. President Obama issued an executive order in November of 2014 that stated the federal government would not seek to deport individuals whose children are U.S. Citizen or lawful permanent residents so long as these individuals were present in the United States since January of 2010 and did not have criminal records. The executive order was an expansion of President Obama's executive order, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and introduced the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security would seek to concentrate its efforts on the removal of illegal immigrants with felonies while allowing illegal immigrants without criminal records that were parents of children that were United States Citizens and or legal permanent residents to criminals to lawfully work in the United States without fear of expulsion or deportation.
The United States Supreme Court by the end of June of 2016 will review a November ruling by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that upheld a decision by U.S. District Court Judge, Andrew Hanen, Brownsville, Texas, in which he halted the immigration initiative of President Obama and declared that the immigration executive order of the President was illegal.
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