{"id":8526,"date":"2015-02-18T10:09:45","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T15:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=8526"},"modified":"2018-12-28T14:27:42","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T19:27:42","slug":"federal-judge-temporarily-blocks-obamas-executive-amnesty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2015\/02\/18\/federal-judge-temporarily-blocks-obamas-executive-amnesty\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Judge Temporarily Blocks Obama’s Executive Amnesty"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a>Late Monday, a federal judge issued a temporary injunction on President Obama’s executive amnesty program announced in November 2014. (FoxNews.com<\/a>, Feb. 17, 2015) Judge Andrew Hanen of the District Court for the Southern District of Texas issued the injunction after ruling that the plaintiffs \u2014 Texas and two dozen other states \u2014 had sufficiently demonstrated that the implementation of the President’s memos granting deferred action and parole status to millions of illegal aliens would injure their states.<\/p>\n The District Court’s ruling came just as the Obama Administration was set to begin implementation of the amnesty programs outlined in the memos the issued by Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson last November. Indeed, DHS had scheduled to begin accepting applications for its expanded DACA program today. (USCIS News Alert<\/a>, Jan. 30, 2015) The expansion would implement the following changes:<\/p>\n (See<\/em> FAIR, Expansion of DACA<\/a>, Nov. 24, 2014; see<\/em> also DHS, Johnson expanded DACA Memo<\/a>, Nov. 20, 2014; but see<\/em> DHS, Napolitano original DACA Memo<\/a>, June 15, 2012)<\/p>\n However, instead of launching the expanded DACA program, the Judge Hanen’s injunction has put this program and other programs initiated last November on hold. In a release issued Tuesday, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said he “strongly disagrees” with the decision, but confirmed that “the Department of Homeland Security will not accept applications for the expanded DACA program on February 18, as originally planned. “Until further notice, he added, “we will also suspend the plan to accept requests for DAPA.” (Johnson statement<\/a>, Feb. 17, 2015)<\/p>\n Read FAIR’s Press Release: Statement by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) on Judge Andrew Hanen\u2019s Preliminary Injunction on Obama Amnesty Programs<\/a>.<\/p>\n \n