The executive action on immigration announced by President Obama following the midterm elections last month is unconstitutional, a federal judge in Pittsburgh ruled Tuesday.
In a 38-page opinion evaluating the impact of the executive action on the sentence due for a Honduran immigrant who pleaded guilty in October to illegally reentering the country after he was first deported in 2005, U.S. District Judge Arthur J. Schwab of the Western District of Pennsylvania waded into the politically charged waters surrounding the executive action.
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