Texas and 25 other states battling the Obama administration about immigration reform won a few extra days to file their response to an appeal by Department of Justice lawyers. The U.S. Supreme Court gave them until Dec. 29 to file a response, according to SCOTUSblog. Typically, the high court allows for a 30-day extension.DOJ filed the appeal after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld on Nov. 10 a district court’s order halting the Obama administration’s plans to implement new immigration rules.
The immigration case first reached the Fifth Circuit in late February, after U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen, who sits in Brownsville, agreed with Texas and 25 other states that sued the federal government. On the basis of the states’ allegations that the proposed new immigration rules would unfairly impose burdensome cost on them, Hanen imposed a temporary ban stopping the Obama administration from implementing the changes that would allow work permits and stop deportations of more than 4 million immigrants.
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