A Texas federal judge has denied the Obama administration’s request to allow its executive actions on immigration policies to temporarily move forward. The same judge also issued another order stating he was “extremely troubled” by federal government lawyers’ representations in their litigation battle with Texas and 25 other states over immigration reform.
“This court expects all parties, including the government of the United States, to act in a forthright manner and not hide behind deceptive representations and half-truths,” wrote U.S. District Judge Andrew S. Hanen of the Southern District of Texas in Brownsville in one of his two orders issued on April 7 in Texas v. United States.
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