Wonkbook: Here’s who is affected by the Supreme Court’s big ruling on immigration

The Supreme Court on Thursday declined to reinstate an effort by President Obama to provide relief from deportation to millions of undocumented immigrants. The Obama administration has sought to offer some undocumented immigrants a guarantee that they would be allowed to stay in the United States temporarily. The president has done so in two stages. In 2012, he allowed undocumented immigrants …   The latest economic and domestic policy from Wonkblog   Martha Rios, center, is one of the undocumented parents who would have benefited from Obama's plan on immigration if the Supreme Court had reinstated it. (Photo by Catalin Abagiu/For The Washington Post) The Supreme Court on Thursday declined to reinstate an effort by President Obama to provide relief from deportation to millions of undocumented immigrants. The Obama administration has sought to offer some undocumented immigrants a guarantee that they would be allowed to stay in the United States temporarily. The president has done so in two stages. In 2012, he allowed undocumented immigrants brought to the United States at a young ageto apply for a temporary reprieve from deportation. Then, in 2014, he expanded on the policy by including older undocumented immigrants who had come as children, as well as the undocumented parents of U.S. citizens. With their victory in court, Republicans have now successfully stymied the second of those expansions. They view Obama's policy overall as a kind of amnesty that the president does not have the authority to grant. Yet their victory was not as complete as it might have been if not for Antonin Scalia's death earlier this year. His passing left the court with four liberal and four conservative justices, who were divided evenly on the decision. The deadlock upheld the decisions of lower courts that ruled against Obama but rendered the Supreme Court unable to establish a decisive precedent for future cases. 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