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US asks Texas judge to suspend immigration ruling

Washington (AFP) – The US government asked a federal judge in Texas who derailed President Barack Obama’s immigration initiatives to suspend his decision, allowing programs protecting millions of undocumented immigrants to move forward pending an appeal.

Obama had used his executive power to bypass Congress and make controversial changes to the US immigration system that would provide protection and work permits to about four million undocumented foreigners.

But a US district court judge in Texas found last week that Obama had not followed necessary procedures to implement such a wide-ranging plan.

The White House quickly condemned the decision and vowed to fight to get the executive-action programs implemented.

Justice Department lawyers asked Judge Andrew Hanen Monday to stay his decision because Obama’s immigration program is a necessary to effectively police the border and protect national security.

Government lawyers will later formally appeal Hanen’s ruling.

The White House claims having immigration authorities police millions of law-abiding undocumented immigrants distracts them from more pressing threats to national security.

Obama’s new program would protect undocumented immigrants who have not committed crimes and have children who are American citizens or residents.

Twenty-six states, almost all Republican governed, had asked the federal court in Texas to block Obama’s immigration program on grounds he had acted unlawfully.

Immigration reform has long been a hot-button issue in Washington where many lawmakers agree the US system needs to change but rarely agree on how to fix it.

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Immigration Courts 'Operating In Crisis Mode,' Judges Say

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As Congress debates the fate of President Obama’s immigration policies, the nation’s immigration court system is bogged down in delays exacerbated by the flood of unaccompanied minors who crossed the southern border last summer.

The administration made it a priority for those cases to be heard immediately. As a result, hundreds of thousands of other cases have been delayed until as late as 2019.

Even before this past summer’s surge of unaccompanied minors seeking asylum, the immigration courts were already clogged, says Judge Dana Leigh Marks, president of the National Association of Immigration Judges.

“What is an adjective that describes crisis squared?” she asks. “Crisis times crisis. We have been operating in crisis mode for years.”

There were too many cases for too few judges, and adding in the cases of the unaccompanied minors only made matters worse. There are currently more than 429,000 cases pending in the courts with just 223 judges.

Marks, who does not speak for the Justice Department, says it’s no longer a matter of first case in is the first case heard.

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“Now it’s the last cases that come in, the recent border crossers, those cases are moved as it is to the front of the line,” she says. “And that displaces cases that have been waiting on the dockets for months or years depending on the court location.”

Lance Curtright, a San Antonio immigration lawyer, says his firm has hundreds of clients who are in limbo.

“Some of my clients would qualify to get a green card, they can’t get it, so their pathway to citizenship is being delayed,” he says. “The anxiety that they live through is just remarkable because they don’t know if they are going to be deported or not. It trickles down to their family members, their spouses and their children as well.”

This story is familiar to Enrique Arevalo, an immigration attorney based in Pasadena, Calif. He says some of his clients have been waiting years to legalize their status and need only a 15-minute hearing for a judge to finally sign off on their cases. But now they’re told they’ll have to wait indefinitely.

Arevalo says there’s a simple solution.

“Just like they hire more Border Patrol persons to patrol the border, they should hire more immigration judges to make this a more expeditious process,” he says. “So expeditious justice I don’t think really exists when it comes to immigration law.”

The Obama administration has proposed hiring more immigration judges, but that request is hung up in Congress.

As the delays mount, the immigration court system faces other problems. By prioritizing the cases of the unaccompanied minors, the administration fast-tracked their court hearings, creating a shortage of lawyers as legal service providers are swamped with cases.

According to federal records collected by Syracuse University, there are roughly 60,000 unaccompanied minors in the courts. Less than 30 percent have lawyers. Without a lawyer, a minor has a very slim chance of staying in this country.

And even those with a lawyer face another potential obstacle.

“Many of the children are actually never properly notified of the date when their court hearing is, and that problem has been going on for months,” says Ahilan Arulanantham, an attorney with the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project.

He says with the fast-tracking of cases, basic administrative processes broke down such as providing minors and their families with adequate notice of their hearings.

“In many places, what judges are doing is they are ordering the children deported, in abstentia, without them having appeared in the courtroom,” he says. “And that is obviously extremely unfair when they didn’t know about the court date to begin with.”

Representatives of legal service providers have met with administration officials to discuss the problems of adequately notifying minors of their court dates. But no immediate solutions were offered.

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As Congress debates the fate of President Obama’s immigration policies, the nation’s immigration court system is bogged down in delays exacerbated by the flood of unaccompanied minors who crossed the southern border last summer.

The administration made it a priority for those cases to be heard immediately. As a result, hundreds of thousands of other cases have been delayed until as late as 2019.

Even before this past summer’s surge of unaccompanied minors seeking asylum, the immigration courts were already clogged, says Judge Dana Leigh Marks, president of the National Association of Immigration Judges.

“What is an adjective that describes crisis squared?” she asks. “Crisis times crisis. We have been operating in crisis mode for years.”

There were too many cases for too few judges, and adding in the cases of the unaccompanied minors only made matters worse. There are currently more than 429,000 cases pending in the courts with just 223 judges.

Marks, who does not speak for the Justice Department, says it’s no longer a matter of first case in is the first case heard.

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“Now it’s the last cases that come in, the recent border crossers, those cases are moved as it is to the front of the line,” she says. “And that displaces cases that have been waiting on the dockets for months or years depending on the court location.”

Lance Curtright, a San Antonio immigration lawyer, says his firm has hundreds of clients who are in limbo.

“Some of my clients would qualify to get a green card, they can’t get it, so their pathway to citizenship is being delayed,” he says. “The anxiety that they live through is just remarkable because they don’t know if they are going to be deported or not. It trickles down to their family members, their spouses and their children as well.”

This story is familiar to Enrique Arevalo, an immigration attorney based in Pasadena, Calif. He says some of his clients have been waiting years to legalize their status and need only a 15-minute hearing for a judge to finally sign off on their cases. But now they’re told they’ll have to wait indefinitely.

Arevalo says there’s a simple solution.

“Just like they hire more Border Patrol persons to patrol the border, they should hire more immigration judges to make this a more expeditious process,” he says. “So expeditious justice I don’t think really exists when it comes to immigration law.”

The Obama administration has proposed hiring more immigration judges, but that request is hung up in Congress.

As the delays mount, the immigration court system faces other problems. By prioritizing the cases of the unaccompanied minors, the administration fast-tracked their court hearings, creating a shortage of lawyers as legal service providers are swamped with cases.

According to federal records collected by Syracuse University, there are roughly 60,000 unaccompanied minors in the courts. Less than 30 percent have lawyers. Without a lawyer, a minor has a very slim chance of staying in this country.

And even those with a lawyer face another potential obstacle.

“Many of the children are actually never properly notified of the date when their court hearing is, and that problem has been going on for months,” says Ahilan Arulanantham, an attorney with the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project.

He says with the fast-tracking of cases, basic administrative processes broke down such as providing minors and their families with adequate notice of their hearings.

“In many places, what judges are doing is they are ordering the children deported, in abstentia, without them having appeared in the courtroom,” he says. “And that is obviously extremely unfair when they didn’t know about the court date to begin with.”

Representatives of legal service providers have met with administration officials to discuss the problems of adequately notifying minors of their court dates. But no immediate solutions were offered.

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As Congress debates the fate of President Obama’s immigration policies, the nation’s immigration court system is bogged down in delays exacerbated by the flood of unaccompanied minors who crossed the southern border last summer.

The administration made it a priority for those cases to be heard immediately. As a result, hundreds of thousands of other cases have been delayed until as late as 2019.

Even before this past summer’s surge of unaccompanied minors seeking asylum, the immigration courts were already clogged, says Judge Dana Leigh Marks, president of the National Association of Immigration Judges.

“What is an adjective that describes crisis squared?” she asks. “Crisis times crisis. We have been operating in crisis mode for years.”

There were too many cases for too few judges, and adding in the cases of the unaccompanied minors only made matters worse. There are currently more than 429,000 cases pending in the courts with just 223 judges.

Marks, who does not speak for the Justice Department, says it’s no longer the situation that the first case in is the first case heard.

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“Now it’s the last cases that come in, the recent border crossers — those cases are moved as it is to the front of the line,” she says. “And that displaces cases that have been waiting on the dockets for months or years depending on the court location.”

Lance Curtright, a San Antonio immigration lawyer, says his firm has hundreds of clients who are in limbo.

“Some of my clients would qualify to get a green card. They can’t get it, so their pathway to citizenship is being delayed,” he says. “The anxiety that they live through is just remarkable because they don’t know if they are going to be deported or not. It trickles down to their family members, their spouses and their children as well.”

This story is familiar to Enrique Arevalo, an immigration attorney based in Pasadena, Calif. He says some of his clients have been waiting years to legalize their status and need only a 15-minute hearing for a judge to finally sign off on their cases. But now they’re told they’ll have to wait indefinitely.

Arevalo says there’s a simple solution.

“Just like they hire more Border Patrol persons to patrol the border, they should hire more immigration judges to make this a more expeditious process,” he says. “So, expeditious justice I don’t think really exists when it comes to immigration law.”

The Obama administration has proposed hiring more immigration judges, but that request is hung up in Congress.

As the delays mount, the immigration court system faces other problems. By prioritizing the cases of the unaccompanied minors, the administration fast-tracked their court hearings, creating a shortage of lawyers as legal service providers are swamped with cases.

According to federal records collected by Syracuse University, there are roughly 60,000 unaccompanied minors in the courts. Less than 30 percent have lawyers. Without a lawyer, a minor has a very slim chance of staying in this country.

And even those with a lawyer face another potential obstacle.

“Many of the children are actually never properly notified of the date when their court hearing is, and that problem has been going on for months,” says Ahilan Arulanantham, an attorney with the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project.

He says with the fast-tracking of cases, basic administrative processes — like providing minors and their families with adequate notice of their hearings — broke down.

“In many places, what judges are doing is they are ordering the children deported, in abstentia, without them having appeared in the courtroom,” he says. “And that is obviously extremely unfair when they didn’t know about the court date to begin with.”

Representatives of legal service providers have met with administration officials to discuss the problems of adequately notifying minors of their court dates. But no immediate solutions were offered.

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As Congress debates the fate of President Obama’s immigration policies, the nation’s immigration court system is bogged down in delays exacerbated by the flood of unaccompanied minors who crossed the southern border last summer.

The administration made it a priority for those cases to be heard immediately. As a result, hundreds of thousands of other cases have been delayed until as late as 2019.

Even before this past summer’s surge of unaccompanied minors seeking asylum, the immigration courts were already clogged, says Judge Dana Leigh Marks, president of the National Association of Immigration Judges.

“What is an adjective that describes crisis squared?” she asks. “Crisis times crisis. We have been operating in crisis mode for years.”

There were too many cases for too few judges, and adding in the cases of the unaccompanied minors only made matters worse. There are currently more than 429,000 cases pending in the courts with just 223 judges.

Marks, who does not speak for the Justice Department, says it’s no longer the situation that the first case in is the first case heard.

Related NPR Stories

“Now it’s the last cases that come in, the recent border crossers — those cases are moved as it is to the front of the line,” she says. “And that displaces cases that have been waiting on the dockets for months or years depending on the court location.”

Lance Curtright, a San Antonio immigration lawyer, says his firm has hundreds of clients who are in limbo.

“Some of my clients would qualify to get a green card. They can’t get it, so their pathway to citizenship is being delayed,” he says. “The anxiety that they live through is just remarkable because they don’t know if they are going to be deported or not. It trickles down to their family members, their spouses and their children as well.”

This story is familiar to Enrique Arevalo, an immigration attorney based in Pasadena, Calif. He says some of his clients have been waiting years to legalize their status and need only a 15-minute hearing for a judge to finally sign off on their cases. But now they’re told they’ll have to wait indefinitely.

Arevalo says there’s a simple solution.

“Just like they hire more Border Patrol persons to patrol the border, they should hire more immigration judges to make this a more expeditious process,” he says. “So, expeditious justice I don’t think really exists when it comes to immigration law.”

The Obama administration has proposed hiring more immigration judges, but that request is hung up in Congress.

As the delays mount, the immigration court system faces other problems. By prioritizing the cases of the unaccompanied minors, the administration fast-tracked their court hearings, creating a shortage of lawyers as legal service providers are swamped with cases.

According to federal records collected by Syracuse University, there are roughly 60,000 unaccompanied minors in the courts. Less than 30 percent have lawyers. Without a lawyer, a minor has a very slim chance of staying in this country.

And even those with a lawyer face another potential obstacle.

“Many of the children are actually never properly notified of the date when their court hearing is, and that problem has been going on for months,” says Ahilan Arulanantham, an attorney with the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project.

He says with the fast-tracking of cases, basic administrative processes — like providing minors and their families with adequate notice of their hearings — broke down.

“In many places, what judges are doing is they are ordering the children deported, in abstentia, without them having appeared in the courtroom,” he says. “And that is obviously extremely unfair when they didn’t know about the court date to begin with.”

Representatives of legal service providers have met with administration officials to discuss the problems of adequately notifying minors of their court dates. But no immediate solutions were offered.

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Will immigration court battle solve DHS funding impasse?

Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, said Sunday that he believes a recent court decision blocking President Obama’s executive actions on immigration will provide the “exit sign” Congress needs to solve a deep-seated dispute over funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

In less than a week, DHS will run out of funding unless Congress can come to an approval on a new spending bill for the agency. Republicans want a bill that defunds the Mr. Obama’s executive actions that would shield millions from deportation, while Democrats argue the president is acting within his authority and are pushing for a so-called “clean” bill.

“We now have an exit sign and that is the federal court decision saying that the president’s actions unilaterally are unconstitutional and I think we’ve got a great argument to the United States Supreme Court,” McCain said in an interview on CBS’ “Face the Nation” Sunday. “I think that’s the best way that we can resolve this.”

McCain is one Republican who says he does not want to see the department shutting down in the event it does not get a new funding bill. Recalling the hundreds of thousands of people turned away from Arizona national parks during the 2013 government shutdown, McCain said, “I don’t want to see that movie again.”

In a separate interview, DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson said he remains “optimistic” that the House and Senate will come together to fund the department. He said the current impasse is “regrettable” given the numerous challenges DHS faces at the moment, which include the global terrorist threat, the harsh winter conditions, cyber attacks, and the task of securing the southern border.

As an example of what might happen if the department shuts down, Johnson said, “I’m pushing my headquarters staff to stay one step ahead of [the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria], one step ahead of our challenges on aviation security, one step ahead of monitoring our illegal migration, our border security on our southern border. If we shut down, my headquarters staff is dialed back to a skeleton and so that hampers our ability to do that.”

The lawsuit that McCain believes will solve the funding impasse was filed by a coalition of 26 states that argued the president’s immigration actions placed a burden on them. A federal judge temporarily blocked the administration from beginning a new program to defer deportations, part of which was set to begin last week. The administration plans to seek an emergency stay of the judgment to allow the government to begin administering the programs while the case makes its way through the courts.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who led the group of states filing the suit, said in another interview on “Face the Nation” that he has “no doubt” the case will go all the way to the Supreme Court.

“The lawsuit that I filed against the president actually doesn’t deal with the immigration issue. What it deals with is an overreach by the president who is refusing to follow and abide by the United States Constitution,” Abbot said. “Instead of allowing Congress to establish immigration laws as is required by the Constitution…the president himself is making up new immigration laws.”

Abbott sidestepped a question about whether Congress should fully fund DHS now that his lawsuit is moving through the court system, but he did say that he wants to see “full funding to secure the border.”

The issue of what to do with immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally is a problem that Abbott said must be determined by Congress in accordance with the Constitution. He said he is adding more Department of Public Safety Officers and Texas Rangers to secure the border, but that Congress – not the president – must decide to do with the estimated 11.5 million undocumented immigrants.

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Johnson: Immigration appeal coming Monday

Washington (CNN)President Barack Obama’s administration plans to appeal a ruling against its executive action to overhaul U.S. immigration rules on Monday, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said Sunday.

He said the administration will also seek an emergency order that would place U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen’s ruling on hold while it’s appealed — allowing Obama’s White House to implement its immigration plans.

Johnson’s comments, to CNN’s Gloria Borger on “State of the Union,” confirm White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest’s remarks Friday that an appeal is coming Monday.

“We will appeal and we will seek a stay so that we can go back to our efforts to build accountability” into the immigration system, allowing undocumented people who have been in the United States for years to come out of the shadows, Johnson said.

Obama’s executive actions would forestall deportations for millions of undocumented immigrants who are the parents of “Dreamers” — or children who have lived in the United States for much of their lives, and who Obama previously moved to keep in the country.

Republicans have been battling to stop Obama, placing the immigration fight at the center of a debate over funding for the Department of Homeland Security.

    “We’re focused on deporting convicted criminals, threats to public safety, threats to border security, and there’s a population of people who’ve been in this country for years, who are not priorities and will not be deported in any administration, Republican or Democrat,” Johnson said.

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Immigration film 'should be shelved'








Derby Road in SouthamptonFilming took place last year in the Bevois area of Southampton


The leader of Britain’s trade union movement has called for Channel 4′s Immigration Street documentary to be shelved.

The programme, due to be broadcast on Tuesday, has been criticised by residents of Derby Road in Southampton where it was filmed.

TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady said it would “encourage social division and hostility”.

Channel 4 insisted the street would be “represented fairly and accurately”.

The show was originally intended to be a six-part series but will now broadcast as one hour-long episode after filming was disrupted by protests.

Derby Road residents raised concerns that the show would stigmatise the area. It was produced for Channel 4 by independent outfit Love Productions, which made Benefits Street.

Residents also held a demonstration outside Channel 4′s headquarters in London in January.

Ms O’Grady said Channel 4 should “respect the views of the Southampton community”.


Derby Road in SouthamptonSome members of the production crew were egged during filming

“The show looks set to encourage social division and hostility towards migrants and the black, minority and ethnic community.

“Instead of such irresponsible broadcasting, the media should expose how communities are suffering from the shocking impact of low wages, lousy contracts and cuts to services,” she added.


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Producer Kieran Smith previously said the decision to withdraw from the street was taken when “verbal aggression was turning into threats of violence”.

“Many people on Derby Road made the crew feel welcome and wanted to share their stories but there were local groups who, for their own reasons, were determined to halt production.

“It’s a great shame as the footage we have shot shows Derby Road is a place where, on the whole, people of different nationalities, cultures and religions respect and get along with each other. This will be reflected in the film.”

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Stay could prolong Obama immigration battle just a little bit longer

The fight over a Texas-based federal judge who has blocked the Obama administration’s latest immigration policies is moving to Louisiana.

On Friday, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said the Justice Department will file for a stay of the ruling issued by U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen earlier in the week as it seeks an appeal.

Hanen’s ruling temporarily stopped the Obama administration and the Department of Homeland Security from proceeding with President Obama’s executive orders, which could allow millions of illegal immigrants to remain temporarily in the United States.

The federal 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans will be the next court to weigh in on Hanen’s ruling, as it considers the Obama administration’s stay request.

Hanen found that the executive orders and their implementation didn’t allow enough time for public comment, under the terms of the 1946 Administrative Procedure Act. The law requires that  proposed regulation changes appear in the Federal Register to give the public a chance to comment. Hanen didn’t rule directly on the constitutionality of the immigration executive orders.

Most of the 23 judges in the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals are Republican appointees. However, that may not be an indication of how the court could rule on what is now a technical, procedural case.

Anne Joseph O’Connell, a University of California Berkeley law professor, told Bloomberg News earlier this week that the fight over public comment provisions and regulations is a constitutional grey area.

“The case law as to what qualifies as a legislative rule is remarkably unclear,” said O’Connell.

Michael Dorf, a law professor at Cornell, told us on Thursday during a National Constitution Center podcast that “it’s anybody’s guess” how the appeals process will turn out, but the pressure is on the Obama administration.

Podcast Link: Dorf, Shapiro on the Obama immigration case

“Their first line of attack will be to seek an emergency or expedited review first in the Fifth Circuit and then if that fails, in the Supreme Court,” Dorf said. “I think they are in a bit of a bind here .. they don’t have any real good options,” Dorf said about the Obama administration’s appeals prospects.

Ilya Shapiro from the Cato Institute told us on the same podcast that the stay request should have been filed by the Justice Department on the same day as Hanen’s ruling. Shapiro doesn’t believe the Supreme Court will be in a hurry to hear or accept the case, if and when it gets to the high court.

“The government’s not harmed for delaying a policy,” Shapiro said, adding that a hearing this fall could be possible at the high court.

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