In the coming months, parents will receive hundreds of dollars as the Internal Revenue Service begins paying out the Advance Child Tax Credit, providing financial support to families and combating child poverty. Yet one significant group will be left out: parents of undocumented and certain non-citizen children.
Editor’s note: A federal court in Texas delivered a blow to an Obama-era federal program shielding hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children from being deported.
In the 2020 Term, the Supreme Court decided five immigration cases. The U.S. government prevailed in four of the five cases, an 80 percent success rate. This rate was higher than that seen in recent Terms. In my estimation, there are no blockbusters among the five immigration decisions. The decisions primarily focused on interpreting the complexities of the Immigration & Nationality Act. The cases are in the chronological order of their decision.
