Reuters
April 17, 2015
In
a key test of President Barack Obama's efforts to overhaul immigration
law without congressional action, administration lawyers will on Friday
ask a federal appeals
court to lift an injunction blocking his executive action meant to help
undocumented immigrants.
Issued
in February by Texas-based U.S. District Court Judge Andrew Hanen, the
injunction halted programs unveiled in November intended to shield 4.7
million undocumented
immigrants from deportation.
The
programs angered many Republicans who accused the president of
executive overreach and granting amnesty to lawbreakers, but drew praise
from immigrant rights advocates.
Hundreds
of pro-immigrant advocates are expected to rally in front of the U.S.
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals courthouse in New Orleans where arguments
in the case are
set to be heard.
On
April 7, the Fifth Circuit ruled that U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement officers and the state of Mississippi lacked standing to sue
over a separate immigration action issued by Obama in 2012 allowing immigrants brought to the United States as children to stay.
That
decision may signal that the three-judge panel hearing arguments on
Friday could be inclined to temporarily lift Hanen's injunction, some
observers said, which would
let the administration proceed with implementing the president's
landmark immigration action.
In
its published opinion, the court said it was "purely speculative" that
Mississippi had sustained fiscal injury as a result of the 2012 action.
The 26 states that sued over Obama's November 2014 action made claims like those in Mississippi's case.
Still,
it is unclear whether the administration will prevail in the Fifth
Circuit, considered one of the most conservative courts in the country.
The
Fifth Circuit is due to hear a full appeal later this year to
permanently undo Hanen's decision in a case that could ultimately be
decided by the U.S. Supreme Court.
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