The Supreme Court has agreed to an election-year review of Barack Obama’s executive orders to allow up to five million immigrants to “come out of the shadows” and work legally in the US.
Texas is leading 26 mainly Republican-dominated states in challenging the Democratic administration’s immigration plan.
At issue is the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans program, which Obama said in late 2014 would allow people who have been in the United States more than five years and who have children who are in the country legally to “come out of the shadows and get right with the law.”