Texas federal judge leaves block on Obama immigration plan in place

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Source: Reuters

Texas federal judge leaves block on Obama immigration plan in place

Tue Mar 10, 2015 1:24am EDT

(Reuters) - A federal judge in Texas on Monday declined to lift a block of the White House's immigration plan for at least 10 more days, court records show.

U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen in Brownsville, a city along the border with Mexico, issued a preliminary injunction last month halting President Barack Obama's plans that would have shielded millions of illegal immigrants from deportation.

On Monday, Hanen said in a one-page order that the court will not rule on any pending motions at least until a court hearing set for March 19, where government attorneys will have to explain a filing that said some 100,000 people had been given three-year periods of deferred action prior to the judge's injunction.

Hanen, who has previously criticized U.S. immigration enforcement as too lax, based his Feb. 17 ruling on an administrative law question, faulting Obama's administration for not giving public notice of his plans. He also cited ways that Texas would be harmed by the action but used no other states as examples.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/10/us-usa-immigration-obama-idUSKBN0M609H20150310

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1. Of course he did. He's a Gooper, bought and paid for. nt