article_snippet: Last week the government's lawyers admitted in a paper filing that the Obama administration had already granted three-year deportation reprieves to 100,000 people, and granted 100,000 people work permits, as part of the 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
article_snippet: That program's guidelines provided only for two-year reprieves, unlike Obama's latest executive actions.
article_snippet: the Justice Department attorneys had previously told Judge Andrew Hanen that the government wouldn't accept DACA requests with longer timeframes until Feb. 18.
article_snippet: The judge's order came on the 16th, legally prohibiting the federal government wouldn't accept DACA requests with longer timeframes until Feb. 18 from issuing any three-year permits.
article_snippet: the government has asked DACA to lift the stay completely while the government appeal the government to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, or at least to limit the impact of DACA decisions to Texas.
article_snippet: With Monday's ruling, that won't happen until at least March 19.
highlights_snippet: But now the government admits the government began implementing Obama's newest executive actions, giving illegal immigrants 3-year deportation reprieves .
  
highlights_snippet: March 19 hearing will sort the government out, but the president's November 2014 plan remains on hold .
  