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AFP Feb 18, 2015, 02.52AM IST
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WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama's tactic of using executive orders to bypass a hostile Congress and drive through controversial immigration reform has run into legal trouble.
A judge in Texas has blocked an Obama order that would have protected about four million undocumented foreigners from deportation and was due to come into effect from Wednesday.
Twenty-six states -- all but two Republican-governed -- had sought an emergency injunction against the order, which is a hot political issue heading towards the 2016 presidential election.
The states had claimed Obama's move was illegal and could oblige them to provide driving licenses and other documents at great cost.
Federal judge Andrew Hanen of the US District Court in Brownsville agreed with their argument and granted a temporary injunction Monday.
"It is far preferable to have the legality of these actions determined before the fates of over four million individuals are decided," the ruling read.
The White House called the ruling wrong, saying the president had acted within his legal authority and vowed an appeal.
Obama and his Democrat allies have tried to push comprehensive immigration reform, which could eventually bring millions of new voters, many seen as likely Democrats.
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Singed by their defeat in the battle over Homeland Security funding, Republicans arent about to renew their fight against President Barack Obamas executive actions on immigration anytime soon.
When the GOP-controlled Senate bent to Democratic demands to fund the Department of Homeland Security, effectively undercutting conservatives who were willing to allow the agency to shut down until Obama backed down, there was talk of Senate GOP leaders returning to the immigration issue to find new ways to thwart Obamas orders.
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But few within the GOP expect any kind of immigration debate in the Senate in the foreseeable future. The issue has been relegated to the back burner as Republicans instead focus on the budget, trade deals and, possibly, tax reform.
At this point, we have a lot of other issues to do, said Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), who authored stand-alone legislation to block Obamas immigration directives. Im very happy the Department of Homeland Security is funded, and I think the issue of the presidents overreach with his executive order of last November is probably going to end up being decided by the courts. And thats not a bad option.
Senate Republican leadership aides also indicated that the chamber is not likely to return to the Collins legislation in the next several weeks a work period that will be dominated by anti-trafficking legislation, nominations, a fiscal 2016 budget and perhaps an Iran bill.
In the House, committees are humming along on some immigration bills, but leadership has shown no indication when or if they will come to the floor.
The inaction on immigration comes as the GOP is trying to improve its standing among Latinos in the 2016 presidential election. An autopsy of the partys problems after the 2012 election warned that Republicans must embrace and champion comprehensive immigration reform. If we do not, our Partys appeal will continue to shrink.
Reform advocates were buoyed when the Senate overwhelmingly passed a sweeping bipartisan bill in June 2013. But the measure stalled in the House. And immigration, until at least after the next election, is more likely to be fodder for the campaign trail than congressional action.
And if there was any question, Obamas executive actions, which are deeply despised by Republicans, likely extinguished any remaining prospects of this White House working with the GOP on immigration. In a meeting with advocates last month, Obama said he was not hopeful this Republican-led Congress would pass immigration bills that he would be able to sign, one person who attended the meeting said.
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