Arizona congressmen Matt Salmon and Paul Gosar praised today’s decision by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals against President Obama’s executive actions on amnesty today. The Court refused to lift a lower court’s ruling that blocked Obama’s amnesty executive actions which would have prevented the deportation of up to 5 million people in the country illegally.
The justices ruled: “Because the government is unlikely to succeed on the merits of its appeal of the injunction, we deny the motion for stay and the request to narrow the scope of the injunction.”
Salmon quoted the Court’s ruling, “public interest favors maintenance of the injunction,” and said he agreed with it and looks “forward to seeing the trail court continue to hear arguments for this transparently unconstitutional act.”
Gosar said, “This is a huge win for the rule of law as well as putting an end to Obama’s executive amnesty. The list of federal judges who believe Obama violated the law is growing. Needless to say, I am extremely pleased by the court’s decision.”
The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans issued its 68-page ruling today.
Just last week, Gosar introduced a bill, H.RES.281, supported by seventeen of his colleagues which demands the Obama Administration resume Operation Streamline and the prosecution of first time illegal immigrant border crossers.
Operation Streamline was implemented in 2005 and established zero-tolerance immigration enforcement zones. This pro-enforcement program requires criminal charges and allows for prison sentences as well as formal deportation for first time illegal immigrant border crossers. According to Gosar, the program has proven to be quite effective in detouring illegal immigration and is strongly supported by law enforcement along the U.S.-Mexico border.
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