By David Rogers Immigrant rights attorneys won an important round in federal court in Seattle on Monday, keeping alive their lawsuit challenging President Barack Obama’s decision to rush thousands of children from Central America into deportation proceedings last summer without first assuring them legal counsel. U.S. District Judge Thomas Zilly […]
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A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit against an Obama administration program delaying deportations of certain illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children. The unanimous opinion from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals comes as a separate case on whether President Obama’s expanded […]
By Cristina Marcos Leaders of more than 70 cities and counties signed on to a legal brief on Monday calling for President Obama’s executive actions on immigration to move ahead.A Texas district judge issued a temporary injunction in February to freeze the executive actions to shield certain illegal immigrants from […]
U.S. Appeals Judge’s Hold On President Obama’s Immigration Executive Action
31 Mar
by Foster, on News
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department urged a federal appeals court Monday to reverse a hold a judge placed on President Barack Obama’s immigration executive action. The 69-page brief was filed with the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ahead of arguments scheduled for next month. Lawyers for the federal […]