A federal judge in Texas on Monday issued a preliminary injunction blocking the U.S. government from enacting President Obama’s immigration policy to defer deportations for up to 5 million undocumented immigrants.
U.S. District Judge Andrew S. Hanen of the Southern District of Texas temporarily blocked the federal government from implementing “any and all aspects” of the order, which protected millions of people in the country illegally from immediate deportation.
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Hanen’s ruling allows a lawsuit filed by Texas and 25 other states challenging Obama’s executive order to go forward. In his ruling, Hanen said the Obama administration violated the Administrative Procedure Act.









