Obama Policy Critic Weighs States’ Immigration Order Challenge
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U.S. President Barack Obama drew the short straw in a lawsuit by 25 states seeking to block efforts to loosen immigration restrictions: The judge who will decide the case has previously assailed him in that arena for turning “a blind eye to criminal conduct.”
Justice Department lawyers today urged the court to preserve Obama’s executive order allowing 4 million undocumented immigrants to stay in the U.S. They filed their request with U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen of Brownsville, Texas, asking him to refuse the call by half of the U.S. states to delay implementation of the program until their court challenge is decided.