The government has stated that it has completed all procedures relating to replying to Texas and other states, prompting the judge to accelerate his verdict on whether programs relating to immigrants getting deportation deferrals can move ahead or not.
Ever since a judge issued a temporary injunction in the month of February 2015, on the DACA and DAPA programs the executive actions have been on hold. These programs could protect millions of immigrants who have entered the country illegally from deportation, granting them work permits too, in the process. Government attorneys were quoted as saying that if there was no ruling end of Monday they would be approaching the 5th U S Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans in order to protect their interests.
The federal government also informed the judge that it had already issued 3-year deportation deferrals and work permits to more than 100,000 people in the DACA program of 2012. The government also said that as the immigrants had been granted the deferrals and permits before the judge’s ruling (this did not apply to the 2012 program) there was no need to revoke it.
