<p>A federal district court judge blocked President Obama's amnesty program.  The USA Today reports "<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">A federal judge in Texas has blocked President Obama's policy deferring the deportation of millions of undocumented immigrants.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">In <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1668197-hanen-opinion.html" title="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1668197-hanen-opinion.html" style="color: #1990e5;">a 123-page opinion handed down late Monday</a>, Judge Andrew Hanen ruled that the Department of Homeland Security did not allow public comment on its rules implementing Obama's executive action. He issued a preliminary injunction blocking the administration from implementing the deferred deportment program.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">The White House immediately said that the Justice Department would appeal the decision.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 60px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">"The Supreme Court and Congress have made clear that the federal government can set priorities in enforcing our immigration laws — which is exactly what the President did when he announced commonsense policies to help fix our broken immigration system," White House press secretary Josh Earnest said in a middle-of-the-night statement."</p>