But although Arpaio’s complaints appear to have been quelled for the moment, Obama will face a bigger challenge in Texas, where 26 states are also now challenging the president’s immigration policy. Last February, a district court judge in Texas temporarily blocked the programs from going forward.
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“All eyes are now on the Fifth circuit and we are hoping that they too, do the right thing and dismiss the meritless case”, he said.
Arpaio filed one of many lawsuits against the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program for “Dreamers” and a later executive order that extended the deportation deferrals to the Dreamers’ parents.
The federal department on Tuesday was given the right to intervene in 2013 lawsuit that accused Arpaio, who calls himself “America’s toughest sheriff”, and his department of racial profiling, the worldwide Business Times reports.
Arpaio argued that illegal immigrants will be enticed to cross the border in the hope of benefiting from the new policies, but the judges rejected that “magnet theory”. But Pillard, writing for the three-judge panel, said the sheriff’s contentions “are unduly speculative” and “rest on chains of supposition and contradict acknowledged realities”.
Meanwhile, the Washington Times reports the Arizona lawman has petitioned to have federal Judge G. Murray Snow kicked off the case, telling an appeals court Snow’s wife admitted to friends that her husband “hates” Arpaio and wants him out of office.
“We are confident the Supreme Court will agree with Sheriff Arpaio that he has standing and that the executive actions of President Obama are unconstitutional”.
The White House touted the ruling, praising the court for refusing Arpaio’s attempt to block “commonsense” immigration policy.
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The Obama administration provisions would give temporary legal status and work permits to eligible immigrants.
