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SCOTUS rules against green card path for immigrants with temporary status

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WASHINGTON - A unanimous Supreme Court ruled Monday that thousands of people living in the U.S. for humanitarian reasons are ineligible to apply to become permanent residents.Justice Elena Kagan wrote for the court that federal immigration law prohibits people who entered the country illegally and now have Temporary Protected Status from seeking "green cards" to remain in the country permanently.The designation applies to people who come from countries ravaged by war or disaster.

It protects them from deportation and allows them to work legally. There are 400,000 people from 12 countries with TPS status.The outcome in a case involving a couple from El Salvador who have been in the U.S.

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