President Obama’s executive action on immigration reform suffered a big setback last week, with a federal court not allowing his plans to go on board. The action was to grant work permits and protection from deportation to millions of unlawful residents; 26 states came together to sue and stop that action.

An advocate stated that it was a temporary setback, with the government appealing against the judge’s ruling. What will happen is that as usually appeals take a long time to garner decisions the stay would be in limbo for some time, while a final decision is passed.

The opinion last week was a vote which was cast – 2-1, not to grant a temporary stay. It was however announced by the appeals court recently that it was planned to hear out oral arguments on the main appeal in the month of July. It was being hoped by the government that the court would hand down a decision as soon as the court had a chance to evaluate the appeal.

So what transpires is that a decision could be made available in the next few months, and hopefully it would be a decision that is not too bad.

26 states had brought a stay against the President’s ruling. Their argument was that the President does not have the authority to set the enforcement priorities that he has done. Although this argument was already rejected by 2 courts it was accepted by a Judge recently. Hillary Clinton too recently said that she wants to “support more unauthorized and undocumented immigrants.”