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Senator Ted Cruz, also the son of a Cuban immigrant, remains a ferocious opponent of Obama'ss immigration action, which he has called "executive amnesty" and pushed hard against plans to create a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.

Related: Rubio and Cruz as Great Brown Hopes show how little Republicans know about Latinos Senator Ted Cruz, also the son of a Cuban immigrant, remains a ferocious opponent of Obama"s immigration action, which he has called "executive amnesty" and pushed hard against plans to create a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.

But even if the court widens the way for immigration action by states, the negative fallout that followed Arizona-style policing laws has made many lawmakers cautious.

Wilmer Carranza, a 16-year-old high school student who said his parents were here without immigration papers, said he was frustrated by the slow pace of immigration action in Washington.

More importantly, both sides will be eyeing the pending court decision on Obama's immigration action, which could be blocked indefinitely if there was a 4-4 split on the court.

Underscored by Gov. Jan Brewer's latest act of defiance in denying state benefits to undocumented youth affected by President Obama's deferral of immigration action against them, the Republican Party's full embrace of Arizona's immigration policy at its summer convention drew a clear line in the state's sand.

The GOP is treading on very thin ice with Latinos, and if the party aggressively opposes -- legally, or even rhetorically -- the president's immigration actions, Republicans risk solidifying their anti-immigrant image with Latinos, and also Asian Americans.

Unfortunately, House leadership has chosen to start the 114th Congress in an anti-immigrant and anti-compromise fashion, voting on repealing the President's immigration actions.

That bill would tie funding to ending President Barack Obama's immigration actions, which could allow as many as 5 million undocumented immigrants to temporarily stay in the country and work.

They might even have been alarmed at the scope of Mr Obama's immigration actions.

The president has said he won't sign any reauthorisation that blocks his immigration actions.