AP
March 31, 2015
The
Justice Department urged a federal appeals court Monday to reverse a
hold a judge placed on President Barack Obama's immigration executive
action.
The 69-page brief was filed with the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ahead of arguments scheduled for next month.
Lawyers
for the federal government are challenging a preliminary injunction
issued in February by a federal judge in Brownsville, Texas. That
decision placed on hold an
executive action that could spare from deportation as many as 5 million
people who are in the U.S. illegally.
Justice
Department lawyers say in the new court filing that the federal
government has unique authority to enforce the nation's immigration laws
and to use its limited
resources to exercise discretion during the deportation process,
including by deferring removal of certain groups of immigrants, such as
those who do not pose a public safety threat.
The
executive action was challenged by a coalition of 26 states, led by
Texas, who argued that the move was unconstitutional. The states have
said they will suffer irreversible
economic harm if the injunction is lifted. But the Justice Department
says the states have failed to show exactly how they would be negatively
affected by the executive action.
A court hearing has been set for April 17.
The
other states seeking to block Obama's orders are Alabama, Arizona,
Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine,
Michigan, Mississippi, Montana,
Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South
Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, West Virginia and Wisconsin.
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