Supreme Court Deadlock on Immigration Reform

TO THE EDITOR:
 By voting to affirm the 2-1 decision of the lower appellate court, the four conservative members of the Supreme Court have created a deadlock which has the effect of blocking the President's attempt to assure stability to millions of immigrants who are the parents of American born or resident children and effectively prevents them from getting work permits and drivers' licenses.
To reach that impasse, the conservatives accepted the outlandish notion that the State of Texas had standing because it would incur some costs associated with the issuance of drivers' licenses, a cost it has visited upon itself, and, further, bought the State's tenuous argument that the President's unquestioned right to establish priorities for deportation is, somehow, lost when he exercises that right on a broad scale.
This result condemns millions to life in the shadows, insures family disruption and highlights the need to fill the vacant Supreme Court seat, hopefully with someone more inclined to respect human rights and executive privilege.