(Reuters) – A federal judge in Texas has refused to lift a temporary block on a White House immigration plan that would have shielded millions of illegal immigrants from deportation, court documents show. U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen in Brownsville, a city along the border with Mexico, rejected a U.S. […]
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A federal circuit court on Tuesday threw out a state lawsuit against the Obama administration over its executive actions on immigration. No, not that lawsuit. The Obama administration’s 2014 executive actions on immigration — which would allow millions of unauthorized immigrants to apply for protection from deportation and work permits — […]
The Obama administration is ramping up its effort to rescue the president’s immigration actions from legal limbo. A battle over a lawsuit filed by Texas and 25 other states, most led by Republicans, has put Obama’s programs in peril. In response, the administration is moving forward with an aggressive legal […]
By JOSH GERSTEIN A federal judge signaled Monday that he has no plans to act soon on the Obama Administration’s request to stay an order blocking President Barack Obama’s latest round of executive actions on immigration. U.S. District Court Judge Andrew Hanen said in an order issued Monday afternoon that […]