Subject: BREAKING NEWS: Obama slams 'frustrating,' 'heartbreaking' Supreme Court immigration decision
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Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 10:01:57 -0600

President Barack Obama sharply criticized the Supreme Court's deadlocked decision Thursday that effectively thwarted his efforts to expand executive actions on immigration.

"Our founders conceived this country as refuge for the world. Welcoming wave after wave of immigrants kept us youthful and dynamic and entrepreneurial," Obama said. "It has shaped our character and t has made us stronger. But for more than two decades now our immigration system, everybody acknowledges, has been broken. And 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."

The 4-4 tie between the justices leaves in place a lower court order that prohibited Obama from launching a new program to grant "deferred action" status to undocumented immigrants who are parents of U.S. citizens or those green card holders.

Obama also offered praise for the court's upholding the affirmative action program at the University of Texas.

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