Posted on 02/20/2015 11:35:28 AM PST by jazusamo
The Obama administration will seek an emergency court order to move forward with President Obama’s executive action on immigration.
Officials at the Department of Justice (DOJ) plan to seek what is known as an emergency stay that would essentially undo a Texas-based federal judge's injunction from earlier this week. If the stay is granted, the government could restart a pair of executive programs that will shield millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation.
White House press secretary Josh Earnest said DOJ will file for the stay by "Monday at the latest."
The emergency stay had been sought by immigrant rights advocates, who want to get the programs up and running as soon as possible while the appeals process plays out.
"We — as immigrants and as Americans — have waited for nearly a quarter century for these much-needed improvements to our broken immigration system," Marielena Hincapié, head of the National Immigration Law Center (NILC), said Friday in a statement. "We should not allow a flawed legal decision to delay these changes any longer.”
Making good on earlier vows, DOJ will also file a separate appeal seeking to restart the executive programs.
"We will seek that appeal because we believe when you evaluate the legal merits of the arguments, that there is a solid legal foundation for the president to take the steps he announced last year to help reform our immigration system,” Earnest said.
At issue are two new initiatives launched unilaterally by Obama on Nov. 20.
The first expands eligibility for the president's 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which halts deportations and allows work permits for certain undocumented immigrants brought to the country as children. The second, known as DAPA, would extend similar benefits to the parents of U.S. citizens and permanent legal residents.
Combined, the programs could affect as many as 5 million immigrants living in the country illegally.
Many states, however, were quick to object. And Texas — joined by 25 other states — filed a lawsuit contending the programs marked an abuse of executive authority that would cripple their budgets with exorbitant new costs.
In a decision announced near midnight on Monday, U.S. District Judge Andrew S. Hanen agreed, arguing that the administration failed to comply with a federal law governing the adoption of new federal rules.
Hanen has not yet ruled on the merits of the states' complaints, but said they have a significant enough case that both the DAPA and expanded DACA programs should be put on hold until the legal challenges are resolved.
The effects of the decision were immediate, as administration officials quickly announced that they would not begin accepting applications for either program until the court decisions are final.
Before the ruling, the Homeland Security Department was poised to begin accepting applications for the expanded-DACA program this week, and the for the DAPA program in May. Both have been suspended indefinitely.
Hanen's injunction does not affect the original DACA program, which remains up and running.
— Last updated at 2:13 p.m.
Why is it an emergency? Is there an election coming up that needs their votes?
That is quite redundant.
Where is the GOP?
In their Senate or House brothel? In their banks?
Pimping themselves to the MSM?
THE EXEMPT GOP HAS DONE NOTHING ... again.
Why is it an emergency?
Everything was/is an emergency with Obama from day one
Sorry, I don't see an emergency here.
Try again for double jeopardy?
If I was a liberal Democrat in 2015, I’d be laughing and crapping on everyone too. :)
Even if they have to vote illegally....
I want to rob a bank and am livid that I can't. It isn't fair that I don't get what I want. WAH!
Every one of these people should have been immediately deported.
BUMP!!
No, they are getting soggy by doing this over and over again.
This is a huge opportunity for the GOP, which unfortunately is controlled by their corporate paymasters who want cheap labor. Both parties have abandoned the American worker. It is time for a third party.
Is this for the executive directive that he didn’t sign?
It is rumored that Biden is going to central america this spring to recruit more illegal immigrants for this summer.
WAY more.
Why doesn’t he just issue an Imperial Edict?
The GOPe in D.C. are every bit the traitors that the Democrats are.
And forget a third party, unless you can wait 10+ years, and have 50 billion to play with. We have to take control by the states. Not much of a chance to stop the traitors before the country is lost, but it is all we have.
This actually lends credence to Rudy Giuliani’s comment of the other day: Obama is sticking his finger in the eye of American people (who by a wide margin are opposed to his amnesty scheme), whom he obviously loathes.
I wish this idiot thought as much of our military as he does lawbreakers.
Sometimes I feel we are all living in a parallel universe.
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Biden recruiting more illegals wouldn’t surprise me in the least, he has little between his ears but he doesn’t hestitate to do 0bambam’s bidding.
They’ll have a stay request filed by Monday.
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