Obama’s Executive Action Gets Denied Again

Since Obama’s initial announcement of his Executive Action plan in November, American’s have been battling with how to move forward with immigration reform.

As you may recall, Obama’s executive action on immigration states that he would allow temporary safety for up to four million illegal immigrants from deportation, and grant them work visas. In February, Texas denied the executive action saying President Obama ‘overstepped’ his authority. On May 26, a panel of judges from the Fifth Circuit again denied Obama’s administration’s emergency request to override Texas’ shutdown.

On July 10^th, government lawyers made another effort to persuade the federal court of appeals to permit Obama’s executive action to move forward. No decision has yet been made, the two judges on the panel are the same two conservatives that ruled against the initial attempt in May – Judge Jerry Smith and Judge Jennifer Elrod.

This set back could have extensive damage to Mr. Obama as he had hope this would be the central piece of his legacy. It now seems that Obama’s argument on ‘having had the full authority to carry out the vast programs nationwide’ has left the Democrats in slow-moving deliberations with the Supreme Court, which they hope will rule favorable before his term ending next year.