White House to Seek Emergency Order to Let Immigration Plan Proceed
The White House on Friday said that lawyers at the Justice Department would seek an emergency order from an appeals court to allow the federal government to issue work permits and provide legal protections to hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants while it appeals a judge’s ruling halting the programs.
The move came in response to a ruling issued by a federal judge on Monday night indefinitely postponing President Obama’s sweeping executive actions on immigration.
Officials said the Justice Department would make an official request by the end of the day on Monday.
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