Ruling 2-1, the three-judge panel made it highly likely that he’ll have to go to the Supreme Court to try to continue with his amnesty plans.
Of course, we all know this man, he broke the injunction by the lower court before by marching on with his program and even hid 100,000 amnesty approvals from that judge – so he is likely to thumb his nose at the courts again. Hopefully, one day he will cross a judge with the stones to do something about it.
The majority, Judges Jerry E. Smith and Jennifer Elrod, said the president’s new program, known as Deferred Action for Parental Accountability or DAPA, is a new binding policy that probably should have gone through the usual public notice and comment period, instead of being announced unilaterally by Mr. Obama and Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson late last year.
“We live in a nation governed by a system of checks and balances, and the president’s attempt to bypass the will of the American people was successfully checked again today,” said Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who as his state’s attorney general last year began the lawsuit challenging the new amnesty.
Twenty-five states joined Texas in suing to halt the amnesty, arguing they would bear new costs in having to issue driver’s licenses to the illegal immigrants and provide health care and other services to them. The states said the president’s actions were unconstitutional or, at the very least, illegal.
First a district court, and now a federal appeals court, have sided with Texas, serving as twin legal rebukes to Mr. Obama and his defenders, who had insisted the steps he took were consistent with the law and with previous presidents’ actions.
Immigrant-rights advocates said they will keep fighting, and tried to cast both the district and appeals courts as legal outliers.
“We are on the right side of history, the right side of justice,” said Marielena Hincapie, executive director of the National Immigration Law Center.
The rulings do not affect Mr. Obama’s 2012 amnesty for so-called Dreamers, which has already granted tentative legal status to more than 600,000 illegal immigrants, and it also doesn’t take away Mr. Obama’s ability to decline to deport illegal immigrants. That means none of the more than 4 million people in question are likely to be kicked out of the country.
But the judges have ruled that Mr. Obama can’t go further and grant many of those people an affirmative status carrying all sorts of benefits, including driver’s licenses, tax credits and preferential work status under the terms of Obamacare.
They need to Give Obummer the boot..
Thank you judge, we need more like you
He neds to be stopped NOW before something really tragic happens to this country…
$#%&!@* just doesn’t get it does he?
why aren’t all states doing this? oh yeah, they don’t have the balls or they are the bleeding hearts
ICE is deporting them as fast as their UNDERFUNDED BUDGET ALLOWS,,,, at this rate it will take over 50 years to get them all
““Senate Republicans Block President Obama’s Request For Border Security Funds 7/23/10
“Under the Obama administration, deportations have increased to record levels beyond the level reached by the George W. Bush administration with a projected 400,000 deportations in 2010, 10 percent above the deportation rate of 2008 and 25 percent above 2007.[66] Fiscal year 2011 saw 396,906 deportations, the largest number in the history of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement;”
“Deportations from the United States increased by more than 60 percent from 2003 to 2008, with Mexicans accounting for nearly two-thirds of those deported. Under the Obama administration, deportations have increased to record levels beyond the level reached by the George W. Bush administration with a projected 400,000 deportations in 2010, 10 percent above the deportation rate of 2008 and 25 percent above 2007. Fiscal year 2011 saw 396,906 deportations, the largest number in the history of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
The truth is President Obama has doubled the number of Border Patrol agents who were working in 2004 and today border security is stronger than it has ever been