A panel of judges from the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals denied the government’s request to allow the president’s immigration executive action to move forward.
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A federal appeals court on Tuesday denied the government's request to allow President Obama's executive actions on immigration to move forward, preventing an estimated 4 million undocumented immigrants from receiving work permits and being shielded from deportation.
Judge Jerry E. Smith wrote that the court was denying the motion for a stay because "the government is unlikely to succeed on the merits of its appeal of the injunction." The court also denied the government's request that the appeals court limit the injunction to Texas or the plaintiff states.
The decision from the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals kept in place an earlier ruling by Judge Andrew Hanen of the Southern District of Texas placing an injunction on the Obama administration's immigration actions.
The U.S. government appealed that decision to the 5th Circuit, as well as asking the appeals court to stay the injunction during the time the 5th Circuit considered the appeal. The panel denied the stay in a 2-1 vote, with Judge Stephen A. Higginson dissenting.
The lawsuit was filed by Texas in conjunction with 25 other states, which are arguing that the deportation relief programs are an executive overreach that will cause the states to suffer harm.
Immigration advocates condemned the court's decision, but said they still expect the relief programs to prevail in the end. "We think this is an unsound decision, and unfortunately a very harmful one for our economy, our community, and all the families that would benefit from the programs," Melissa Keaney, a staff attorney with the National Immigration Law Center, told BuzzFeed News. "Obviously we're very disappointed about it, but we're also undeterred."
The U.S. government can now choose whether to appeal this decision on the stay request to the Supreme Court.
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