Department of Homeland Security Suspends Rollout of Obama’s Immigration Actions
By Fox News. The Department of Homeland Security is suspending the rollout of President Obama’s immigration actions, after a federal judge issued an order blocking them.
DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson told Brett Beir on “Special Report” Tuesday that he strongly disagrees with the judge’s ruling and says it will be appealed promptly.
“The executive actions that we are moving forward with are on hold for the time being but this ruling will definitely be appealed and I believe it will be overturned.”
A DHS agency had been set to start accepting applications on Wednesday for the first phase of the plan — an expanded program shielding young immigrants who came to the U.S. illegally from deportation. Johnson said that is now suspended.
Johnson said DHS also will suspend its plans for implementing the broader portion of Obama’s immigration overhaul, which was set to launch in May — a program to give a deportation reprieve to potentially millions of illegal immigrant parents of legal residents. (Read more from “Department of Homeland Security Suspends Obama’s Amnesty” HERE)
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Obama Vows to Fight Immigration Ruling
By Andrew Beatty. US President Barack Obama claimed history and the law were on his side Tuesday, as he vowed to fight a court order freezing controversial immigration reforms.
Obama had used an executive order to bypass a hostile Congress and drive through measures to protect about four million undocumented foreigners from deportation.
But a judge in Texas issued an emergency injunction before the measures were to come into effect starting Wednesday.
Obama was defiant: “I think that the law is on our side and history is on our side, we are going to appeal it.”
“This is not the first time a lower court judge has blocked something or attempted to block something that ultimately was shown to be lawful.” (Read more from this story HERE)
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