Should Obama’s immigration executive action be delayed?
"A federal judge in South Texas on Monday temporarily blocked President Barack Obama's executive action on immigration, giving a coalition of 26 states time to pursue a lawsuit that aims to permanently stop the orders," reports the Associated Press.
U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen's decision comes after a hearing in Brownsville, Texas, in January and puts on hold Obama's orders that could spare as many as five million people who are in the U.S. illegally from deportation.
Hanen wrote in a memorandum accompanying his order that the lawsuit should go forward and that without a preliminary injunction the states will "suffer irreparable harm in this case."
Today's Question: Should Obama's immigration executive action be delayed?
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