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Administration Asks Court to Lift Order Halting Immigration Programs

March 13, 2015 (1 min read)

"The Obama administration, fighting a lawsuit by 26 states against the president’s executive actions on immigration, asked a federal appeals court Thursday to lift an order by a judge in Texas that halted the programs.  Calling the legal reasoning behind the Feb. 16 injunction “unprecedented and wrong,” the administration filed for an emergency stay in the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans.  The ruling, by Judge Andrew S. Hanen of Federal District Court in Brownsville, Tex., forced the administration to cancel the start of programs to provide protection from deportation and work permits to more than four million immigrants in the country illegally.  If the appeals court grants the stay, the administration could move forward on the initiatives. But if it does not, the programs are likely to be significantly delayed. ... Also on Thursday, 14 states and the District of Columbia filed papers in the same court supporting the administration and asking to be exempt from the injunction." - Julia Preston, New York Times, Mar. 13, 2015.