The New York Times: The Obama administration, fighting a lawsuit by 26 states against the president’s executive actions on immigration, asked a federal appeals court Thursday to lift an order by a judge in Texas that halted the programs.
Calling the legal reasoning behind the Feb. 16 injunction “unprecedented and wrong,” the administration filed for an emergency stay in the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans. The ruling, by Judge Andrew S. Hanen of Federal District Court in Brownsville, Tex., forced the administration to cancel the start of programs to provide protection from deportation and work permits to more than four million immigrants in the country illegally.
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