The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has denied the Obama administration’s emergency appeal, asking to unblock the president’s 2014 immigration executive actions—deferred action for parents, or DAPA, and the extension to his 2012 relief for young immigrants brought here as kids, DACA.
A federal judge in Texas issued the temporary injunction in February, saying both programs should freeze, while a lawsuit against the feds on behalf of 26 states concludes in the courts. (Texas, Arizona and 24 others hope to kill both those programs for good.)
From a New York Times piece:
Two of three judges on a penal of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, in New Orleans, left in place an injunction by a federal district judge in Brownsville, Tex. The ruling comes in a lawsuit by 26 states against actions President Obama took in November. Many of the initiatives were scheduled to take effect this month. (Last week, the same day applications could have been accepted for DAPA, undocumented parents in Tucson joined protests happening around the country demanding the court to lift the block to DAPA and extended DACA. I wrote about it here.)
The appeals court found that Texas and the other states did have sufficient legal grounds to bring the lawsuit and that the administration had not shown it would be harmed if the injunction remained in place and the programs were further delayed.
But this isn’t the final word. The court in Texas is reportedly set to hear arguments on the lawsuit the week of July 6.
This article appears in May 21-27, 2015.
What’s the rush? Could it be the next election? Why step over all those waiting to enter legally by breaking the law?
Ha I experienced personally the people cutting into the front of the line when I was filing legally. This is an insult. Filing cost a lot of my hard earned money while these others don’t have to pay a dime. One of the first rules is that you will not commit a crime or be deported. Well entering illegally is a crime no excuses. No one is held accountable. Ridiculous.
Seems laws still matter after all. Most people are opposed to illegal immigration.
We know the Department of Justice fee’s are paid by Tax payer of US, who from the 26 th state paying the fee’s for the all the attorney , Is Texas attorney General is paying from Texas Government or his pocket why don’t investigation start who paid all the fee’s with real finance check
Legal and Civics Learned , several thousand have paid with their lives over the past decade. I think that is more than you were charged. Too bad empathy isn’t a legal requirement.
Empathy for criminals is not necessary. It is destructive to both countries.