Supreme Court looks split on Obama’s illegal immigrant policy

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The eight Supreme Court justices appeared evenly split during Monday’s oral arguments in the case over President Obama’s 2014 policy to not deport an estimated four million immigrants illegally living in the U.S.

That is likely a bad sign for the administration because a 4-4 split in U.S. v. Texas would mean that lower court rulings halting the policy would stand.

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