The U.S. Supreme Court’s ultimate understanding of just two words in the federal “guidance” establishing the Obama administration’s delayed deportation plan for some 4 million illegal immigrants could hold the key to the outcome of the case.
But understanding those two words—“lawfully present”—is not easy for those not steeped in the world of immigration law. And those two words, admitted Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr. during Monday’s arguments in United States v. Texas have created a “terrible amount of confusion.”
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