New York Times email:
A federal appeals court on Tuesday denied the Obama administration’s request to lift a hold on the president’s executive actions on immigration, which would have granted protection from deportation as well as work permits to millions of immigrants in the country illegally.
Two of three judges on a panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, in New Orleans, left in place an injunction by a federal district judge in Brownsville, Tex. The ruling comes in a lawsuit by 26 states against actions President Obama took in November. Many of the initiatives were scheduled to take effect this month.
The appeals court found that Texas and the other states did have sufficient legal grounds to bring the lawsuit and that the administration had not shown it would be harmed if the injunction remained in the place and the programs were further delayed.
I am sorry that the Court ruled against the President on this one. We have illegal immigrants living in this country who pay their taxes and are productive members of society. Leave them alone.
The nation should be spending its limited resources on deporting criminals. There are plenty of those to go after. Let’s leave decent people alone.
On the other hand, all the immigrants can’t be deported. They will have children and those children will vote against those who tried to make life more difficult for their families. I guess that is what Republicans are afraid of.
The problem is that there are too many elected officials in Congress who do not want to address the problem – as it is complex – and they do not want to do the hard work. You see this on many issues – immigration, tax reform, aumf, etc.
Then there is the conservative base with the nativist mentality that prevents the elected officials from doing the work that needs to be done to solve some of these problems.
The problem is complex and needs a comprehensive fix.
You should be happy that the Court ruled against the President on this one. Just think of what laws a Republican President could make up or change that he didn’t like.
Republican presidents have been doing that all along as have Democratic presidents.
You might want to compare Bush executive orders to Obama executive orders. UFB
Oh well. We’ll let the voters decide come the next election.
Its nice that you encourage law breaking to support illegal immigration. Will you support such executive actions when a Republican is in office?
If not…how is this rule of law?
His actions spent resources….the same resources you say are needed elsewhere.
They are criminals. They broke the law. I don’t care if they have children. Your positions supports deporting them even faster before their children can take advantage of the previous law breaking.
I don’t support illegal immigration. I support handling the situation in humane, expedient way. You aren’t going to be alble to deport all the immigrants so let’s come up with a plan so they aren’t illegally here.
It doesn’t matter who the president is. More came illegally under Bush than under Obama. I haven’t changed my opinion, Mr. Partisan. I am trying to figure out how Obama’s actions spent rewsources. For the life of me, I can’t figure it out and neither can you.
I will continue to want to deport criminals and leave decent, hardworking people alone.
@Moon-howler
So you ONLY want to deport criminal illegal immigrants? If so then you must be pretty darn mad with the Obama administration. In 2014 alone they released over 165,950 criminally convicted illegal aliens (with convictions ranging from murder to rape to assul.
If what you say is true that you want to deport criminals then I must have missed your outrage on this issue over the past few years with the Administration releasing hundreds of thousands of convicted criminal illegal aliens.
Where is the proof? You have none.
How dare this racist court try to oppose The Executive! The judges have to be motivated by racism and/or nativism. Don’t they realize that immigration is so important an issue that has to be fixed immediately and exactly the way The Executive wants. It’s too important to wait for a solution to come from Congress. Besides, they might pick a solution that isn’t exactly what The Executive wants. How dare the court, just like the previous court, try to hide behind the Constitution. The Executive must be free to act on this. Who cares if it’s “Constitutional” or “legal”
I loved the Washington Post’s spin on this: “President Obama’s legacy is increasingly in legal jeopardy” Love the euphemism “increasingly in legal jeopardy” I think the plain English version of that is “illegal”
If you wait for a solution from Congress you had better not hold your breath. They would rather draft draconian anti abortion bills that take choice away from families who might be dealing with a pregnancy where there is severe fetal anomaly.
Meanwhile those who are screeching pro family sentiments have no problem splitting up families and deporting mothers or fathers.
hypocrites!
@Furby McPhee
+1
BS
@Moon-howler
I agree completely! Why do those fools in Congress think they have the right to say what is legal or not? The Executive was very tolerant to put up with with their Gang of Eight for as long as He did. But when it was clear Congress was going to do nothing but check His prerogative, The Executive acted. As you said, The Executive couldn’t wait any longer. The number of illegal aliens in the country is falling slightly, so the urgency of this issue is self-evident. Clearly the status quo can’t continue.
I apologize for using the nativist language of ‘illegal alliens’ instead of ‘undocumented immigrant’ or ‘future citizen’. It must have been a slip after reading the part of the racist and nativist judges’ opinion where they dare to correct the language of The Executive’s Justice Department and say that “illegal immigrant” is a more accurate term as their entry into the country was an illegal act. How racist is that, to try to correct the language of The Executive!
I just wonder why The Executive even bothers putting up with Congress at all. Just look at all the urgent issues that need action Right Now. Climate Change, Marriage Equality, Income Inequality, Insufficient investment in infrastructure, and not enough investment in schools in urban areas like Baltimore. Instead of doing what The Executive wants, all these racists in Congress want to do is pass a budget (why do we suddenly need a budget? The Executive hasn’t needed one before.) and have hearings questioning if The Executive has the authority to kill Americans without trial.
Look at that Amtrak train crash last week. If only Congress had let The Executive act, there would have been sufficient investment in infrastructure and the train engineer wouldn’t have run the train at twice the speed limit. There’s practically blood on Congress’ hands.
It’s a shame that Congress, motivated solely by racism against The Executive, won’t let him do everything that He determines He needs to do.
Furby, sarcasm doesn’t become you. I never said a word about the trm “illegal aliens.” The forbidden word here is “illegals.” It is just ignorant sounding.
http://cis.org/vaughan/non-deported-ice-still-releasing-criminal-aliens
🙂 enjoy…
CIS Is hardly an independent organization. It is a spin off of FAIR and NumbersUSA. The organization exists to reduce the number of immigrants. Frankly, I think they are pulling these numbers out of their butts.
I repeat: Where is the proof? You have none.
@Starry flights
Try hitting up the ole Google machine before calling “BS”. Just because MSDNC or media matters doesn’t report it doesn’t mean it’s BS.
@Moon-howler
What sarcasm? I’m just using the arguments of the Left. You were the one who said we couldn’t wait on Congress to deal with immigration. You are the one who posted the article saying the number of illegal aliens is dropping. President Obama was the one who said he didn’t have the legal authority to unilaterally implement an amnesty.
Plenty of people on the Left like Casa de Maryland complain about the phrase ‘illegal aliens’. Harry Reid used ‘future citizen’ to describe illegal immigrants.
You were the one who said opposition to The Executive’s actions was ‘nativist’ and if I had to list everyone on the Left who has said criticism of The Executive is motivated by race, I’d need my own blog.
The Executive has talked about the need for immediate action via executive orders on Climate Change and he has already made unilateral decrees on same sex marriage.
Rescuers were still searching for bodies in the Amtrak crash while Democrats were busy blaming the GOP for not spending enough on infrastructure to prevent this crash. (Although they did shut up when it became clear it was the engineer’s fault.)
I’m sorry that you are interpreting all of this as sarcasm. Now that the Left is calling for the jailing of climate deniers and other dissenters, I decided I needed to correct my views for my own personal survival. Perhaps my sudden conversion surprised you and you mistook it for sarcasm. But as you can see, all of my new, deeply held convictions are in line with the new Orthodoxy.
What are you two complaining about? The judge ruled in your favor. Go pop the champagne.
Its interesting that the court concluded that the partial implementation of even a benevolent dictator’s decree undermines the constitutional imperative of ‘a uniform Rule of Naturalization’” as contained in Article I of the U.S. Constitution. This is diferent from arguing the immigration laws should be enforced vigorously and uniformly’” as outlined in the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. Both apply here IMHO and both have been violated by this Administration for political advantage and not for any humanitarian ideals.
Next up in the 5th Circuit will hear oral arguments over the the constitutional and statutory merit of the injunction issued against President Obama’s plan to, in essence, legalize up to 5 million selected – er undocumented, noncriminal illegal aliens. We may yet get to a resolution of law and constitutional reach over political expediancy.