President Obama’s decisions to allow some illegal immigrants to stay in the United States came up against another roadblock this Monday.
A judge in the Texan court stated recently that instead of according or even rejecting the administration’s request to move forward with the President’s executive actions on immigration, he would make no additional judgments until after March 19.
The President’s deportation relief policies were previously halted by the Judge through a preliminary injunction last month, as it was thought that the policies were unconstitutional. But the policies were imposed with a stay by the Administration’s attorneys that enabled them to go forward. The judge was asked to rule on the request by the end of Monday.
However, many complications have arisen and the crisis has been extended by accusations that the states had been misled by the federal government about the issue of the 2014 immigration policies going into effect. Last week a document was filed by the Justice Department that informed the Texan judge about 100,000 illegal immigrants were given 3-year work permits between November and the time of the judge’s order. The 26 states are now claiming that the government had executed some of the policies well before the February 2015 date. In the order on Monday the Texan judge stated that the federal government should be able to “explain the issue” satisfactorily.