WASHINGTON, April 17 (UPI) -- Appellate judges will consider Friday lifting a temporary ban imposed by a Texas federal judge on President Barack Obama's executive action that shields up to 5 million undocumented immigrants from deportation.
The U.S. Department of Justice will go before the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans and urge a three-judge panel to let the immigration executive action move forward as planned while the legal case brought by 26 states continues. The hearing before the panel allows lawyers for both sides to make their cases publicly.