A federal judge in Texas has sided with the state and 25 other states in the United States of America, by ordering a halt to President Obama’s executive action on immigration. All these states have filed lawsuits which oppose the President’s initiatives.

Protection from deportation and work permits to as many as 5 million unauthorized illegal immigrants form a part of the executive action. The lawsuits will prohibit this from happening. The first of these programs was to start receiving applications from Wednesday. The ruling will now have an enormous impact – around 270,000 undocumented and unauthorized, illegal immigrants who came to the United States as children will not be able to apply for deportation under the expansion of an existing executive program.

According to the President’s critics the Obama administration had failed to comply with the basic administrative procedures for putting in such a vast program into execution. On the other side Washington and 11 other states came out in support of the President; these states argued that the economy of the country would benefit from the increase in wages and taxes that would result if illegal immigrants turned legal.