Justices consider if parents can impute immigration status to children 
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WASHINGTON – The justices of the Supreme Court grilled attorneys about the language of an immigration statute in an effort to determine whether someone seeking relief from deportation can benefit from their parent’s resident status and years of legal residence in the country.
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