Back outside the white marble court, people marched with banners that said "Keep Families Together" and chanted "We're home and here to stay, undocumented and unafraid" and "sí se puede" – Spanish for "yes we can", the optimistic slogan used by Obama during his 2008 election campaign.
And whether or not you think those moments should stay undocumented for sentimental reasons, we're heading towards the capability of capturing it all.
"They can stay in the abusive situation or go back to their home country, which typically has very poor economic conditions, or they can leave their job and stay here undocumented," said Kimberley Propeack, a lawyer for Casa of Maryland, an immigrants rights group.
Recent polling shows widespread support for allowing undocumented immigrants to stay in the country legally, with 71percentt of Americans saying undocumented immigrants should be legalized and 27percentt saying they should not.
While some returnees in this group returned through so-called Assisted Voluntary Return programmes, others, who refused to comply with AVR and stayed as undocumented migrants, were eventually arrested and deported.
"Before people were daunted by the concept of having to leave the country and come back in as the final step and maybe felt somewhat secure and not as rushed to obtain legal status," said Lincoln-Goldfinch. "But when Trump took office people all of the sudden felt very afraid and felt the risk of consular processing was less than staying in the US undocumented".
Also, depending on the precise rules, charities that help undocumented migrants stay off the streets might have to stop doing so, again making migrants' conditions worse.
Killer Stat: The president is letting up to 5 million undocumented immigrants stay in the country.
Now that group has filed a court brief to persuade the Supreme Court to uphold policies that let undocumented immigrants stay in the United States.
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