The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans has struck down Obama’s illegal executive action to prevent the deportation of 5 million illegal immigrants.
President Obama’s executive action preventing the deportation of an estimated 5 million people living in the United States illegally suffered another setback Monday after a federal appeals court upheld a federal judge’s injunction blocking the measure.
The 2-1 decision by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans further dims the prospect of implementation of the executive action before Obama leaves office in 2017. Appeals over the injunction could take months. Depending on how the case unfolds, the injunction could even go back to the Texas federal court for more proceedings.
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Part of the initiative included expansion of a program called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, protecting young immigrants from deportation if they were brought to the U.S. illegally as children. The other major part, Deferred Action for Parents of Americans, would extend deportation protections to parents of U.S. citizens and permanent residents who have been in the country for years.
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.
They acknowledged an argument that an adverse ruling would discourage potential beneficiaries of the plan from cooperating with law enforcement authorities or paying taxes. “But those are burdens that Congress knowingly created, and it is not our place to second-guess those decisions,” Smith wrote.
Source: FOX News
So for now it appears that deportations will continue as they should, but without Congressional action, deportations will remain at their steady inefficiency.
Although Obama wanted to shirk his burden of responsibility regarding illegal immigrants and would rather let them run free throughout the United States, Congress must move to supply deportation authorities with more support to ensure a lasting solution.
Providing benefits to illegal immigrants paid for by the taxpayer is absolutely the wrong thing to do in this situation. Congress must step up and take responsibility for the efficient deportation of illegal immigrants.
Now, how will Obama react to this is anybody’s guess….he has declared before that he will simply break court rulings regarding immigration.
