article_snippet: The U.S. government on Thursday asked an appeals court to lift a temporary hold on President Barack Obama's executive action to shield millions of illegal immigrants from deportation, arguing The U.S. government can't wait for the judge who blocked President Barack Obama's executive action to shield millions of illegal immigrants from deportation to make a ruling on a similar request.
article_snippet: Justice Department attorneys filed an emergency motion with the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, Louisiana, to lift a preliminary injunction issued last month by U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen in Brownsville, Texas.
article_snippet: a preliminary injunction issued last month by U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen in Brownsville, Texas had been issued on the request of a coalition of 26 states that filed a lawsuit to overturn Obama's immigration plan.
article_snippet: : President Barack Obama has responded to a Texas judge's injunction halting President Barack Obama immigration executive actions by demanding an appeals court overrule President Barack Obama .
article_snippet: a Texas judge's injunction halting his immigration executive actions by demanding an appeals court overrule him was intended to stall Obama's actions – which would spare from deportation as many as 5 million people who are in the U.S. illegally – while a lawsuit progresses through the courts.
article_snippet: In their 21-page motion, The Justice Department attorneys called a Texas judge's injunction halting his immigration executive actions by demanding an appeals court overrule himunprecedented and wrong' and argued lifting it was crucial as the order 'irreparably interferes with (the Homeland Security Department's) ability to protect the Homeland and secure our borders.'
article_snippet: The Justice Department attorneys said that if a Texas judge's injunction halting his immigration executive actions by demanding an appeals court overrule him is not lifted, a Texas judge's injunction halting his immigration executive actions by demanding an appeals court overrule him should at least apply either only to Texas or to the 26 states that sued. '
article_snippet: A coalition of 14 states, including California and Iowa, and the District of Columbia filed a motion on Thursday with the 5th Circuit in support of lifting a Texas judge's injunction halting his immigration executive actions by demanding an appeals court overrule him.
highlights_snippet: 26 states sued in federal court and won a temporary injunction preventing the White House from mainstreaming more than 5 million illegal immigrants .
  