Federal court blocks Obama's immigration plan
A federal appeals court refused Tuesday to allow President Obama's program to protect millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation from going into effect.

The decision by a three-judge panel of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans adds another delay for the undocumented immigrants who could have been protected under the president's order. A federal judge blocked Obama's plan in February, hours before many of them were to start applying for the new program.

Obama announced in 2012 that he would allow undocumented immigrants brought to the country as children to register with the federal government in exchange for two-year protections from deportation. In November, he said Congress had yet to fix the nation's broken immigration system, so he would move to protect even more undocumented immigrants.

Under his new program, more undocumented immigrants brought to the country as children would qualify for the deportation protections, as well as older undocumented immigrants who had U.S. citizen children.

The White House criticized the ruling, saying the two-judge majority misrepresented the facts and the law.

Republican governors and members of Congress have opposed Obama's program from the start, arguing that he had overstepped his constitutional authority and was far exceeding the presidential right of "prosecutorial discretion" — the executive's ability to focus limited enforcement dollars on selected populations.

"The president said 22 times he did not have the authority to take the very action on immigration he eventually did, and the courts have agreed once again," House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said.

http://www.wfaa.com/story/news/nation/2015/05/26/obama-immigration-blocked-federal-appeals-court/27969883/

Good. Can US citizens agree that our immigration system isn't effective? Yes. Has Obama tried working across the aisle to come up with compromises to get it back on track? Yes. Republicans... We're waiting.

Good. Our immigration system is not effective, it has not been. Obama has constantly tried to overstep his authority. Department of Immigration has given in too much already.
Obama's "two year plan" was a joke.
Then what?

Send them home?
Or pay for a generation or five?
Keep the children & send the mom's & bio dad's back?
Borrow more money from China?
Register more democratics?



We as a nation simply can not afford it. We can't afford our own.
We can't afford to even vaccinate, educate & house these children.
*lSadly even if we did.. they probably won't end up as American citizens anyway... & perhaps, not even productive or contributing


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Being told twice in 2 separate federal courts that NO is the LEGAL answer should have Obama applying for refresher courses in case and constitutional law. lol

But... but... he thinks he is Emperor for life

lol thanks for that ...I haven't laughed that hard in awhile

If he runs Michelle for president and sets up a foundation ... he can make millions just like Clinton!

I somehow think he already has made millions...stimulus money? oh yeah, but but where did it all go?

You have got to be kidding! No President has ever made less effort of "working across the aisle".

Perhaps he could "enforce the laws on the books!". What a concept.

" less effort of working across the aisle ".
I wasn't going to go there... glad you did.