In immigration litigation pitting Texas and 25 other states against the Obama administration, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a memorandum arguing that U.S. District Judge Andrew S. Hanen should not impose punitive sanctions against the federal government. Nor should Hanen, who sits in Brownsville, reduce from three years to two the time allowed on work permits that the federal government already has issued to some 108,000 immigrants, DOJ lawyers argue.
In the memorandum, the DOJ lawyers write that punitive sanctions would not be justified as a response to their previous “unintentional miscommunication” to Hanen about the federal government’s flawed efforts to comply with an injunction he issued in February.
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