Amid lofty questions of executive power, federalism and prosecutorial discretion that the U.S. Supreme Court will consider when it reviews the Obama administration’s immigration program, it’s easy to overlook the real people—an estimated 4.3 million undocumented immigrants whose lives will turn on the outcome of this case.

Three of them, each the mother of children who are U.S. citizens, are intervenors in the case, a reminder to the justices of the real-world consequences of their decision.

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