The Obama administration is being pressed by the immigration rights groups for taking steps to enable the President’s new policies on immigration reform, in spite of a federal judge’s ruling that is currently blocking these actions.

It is being said that Administration officials are all set to appeal the decision on Monday by a Texas-based U.S. district judge that will halt a pair of executive actions providing deportation relief to millions of illegal immigrants in the United States.

But as the appeals process could take a long time the advocates want the administration to kick-start the Immigration program through the imposition of an emergency order — known as a “stay” by the courts, this will seek to undo the judge’s ruling and enable the initiatives to be rolled out while the lawsuits against them continue in process.

Many advocates of the immigration reform say that a long delay could suppress participation at the expense of immigrant families. Administration officials in turn state that they were still weighing the pros and cons while exploring other legal options, one which involved an emergency stay. The administration declined to comment on what the options exactly were, it was determining certain specific factors, it said. Some legal experts noted that one consideration might be the fact that the request for a stay must first go to the federal judge- step that could delay not only the stay but the underlying appeal.