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Appeals Court Maintains Hold on Obama Deportation Reprieve

HeadlineMay 27, 2015

A federal appeals court has refused to restore President Obama’s executive actions protecting millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation. A right-wing judge blocked Obama’s deportation reprieve earlier this year after a motion filed by Texas and 25 other states. The federal government had asked for the injunction to be lifted while the original ruling is appealed, but a divided two-to-one panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected that bid.

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