Justices Antonin Scalia and Samuel Alito, the newest justice, hinted at their support for the administration's position.

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Organized labor's position harkens back to the days of early AFL President Samuel Gompers, who came out against a more open immigration policy when he saw how the late-19th-century wave of Chinese immigrants affected his union members' wages.

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