Top Story – On Tuesday, the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama announced it will appeal a Monday ruling made by a federal appeals court that jeopardized the administration’s plan to forestall the deportation of a few 5 million people.
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The implementation of the executive action of the President seems unlikely as it received a 2-1 decision from New Orleans’ 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Justice Department spokesman Patrick Rodenbush said the department is deciding how to best move forward to “resolve the immigration litigation as quickly as possible”, according to the AP.
Obama administration officials said they hope the country’s top court will consider the case in a few months and issue a ruling by the end of its current term in June, just months before Obama’s White House term expires in early 2017.
Texas is leading the 26-state coalition challenging the Executive Orders, which include the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program that would keep children brought to the USA illegally by their parents from being deported.
After a federal appeals court blocked President Obama’s initiative to protect millions undocumented immigrants from deportation, parents, like Antonio Campos, may be forced to leave their children who are American citizens. To date, more than 720,000 young immigrants have been granted permission to live and work legally in the United States.
Immigration advocates reacted to an appeal court’s decision blocking Obama’s executive actions on immigration.
Bernal explained that her mother hasn’t been able to adjust her immigration status, not even by having one of her USA citizen children petition for her, because she entered the country illegally. A federal court in Texas in February ruled in their favor.
The case against the Obama order was brought by 26 states, all led by Republican governors.
After an immigration reform bill died in Congress, Obama last November announced up to 5 million illegal immigrants would be eligible for deportation reprieves and work permits if they met certain conditions.
The 70-page majority opinion by Judge Jerry Smith, joined by Jennifer Walker Elrod, rejected administration arguments that the district judge abused his discretion with a nationwide order and that the states lacked standing to challenge Obama’s executive orders.
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Civil rights campaigner and United Farm Workers co-founder Dolores Huerta, who is in Milwaukee on Tuesday for a march against the “anti-immigrant rhetoric” in the Republican presidential debates, said the court’s decision was “fundamentally incorrect”. Taking it to the Supreme Court.
