Earlier this week U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services admitted gang member and illegal alien Jesus Rangel-Hernandez, who has been charged with four counts of first-degree murder in North Carolina, should have been deported but wasn't thanks to President Obama's executive amnesty, deferred action program [DACA].

President Obama's new deportation amnesty will remain halted, a federal judge in Texas ruled Tuesday night in an order that also delivered a judicial spanking to the president's lawyers for misleading the court.

The heady sense of victory immigrant rights activists had last year after President Obama announced his deportation amnesty has faded in recent weeks as the advocates sense theyve lost ground among the very Democratic leaders they were counting on to deliver at the national and state levels.

The administration asked a federal appeals court Thursday to let President Obama’s amnesty go into effect immediately, calling a lower judge’s ruling halting the amnesty “unprecedented and wrong” and saying illegal immigrants will be hurt until the new policy can be implemented.

Justice Department lawyers said Texas, which sued to stop the amnesty, had no basis to be in court, and said Judge Andrew S. Hanen, who issued an injunction last month halting the amnesty, went too far in halting the program nationwide, rather than just in Texas and its 25 fellow states that sued.

Lawmakers return Monday to the Capitol without a clear path out of the shutdown showdown over homeland security funds, with Senate Democrats resisting any negotiations and House Republicans determined to block President Obama’s deportation amnesty.

The Obama administration moved Tuesday to carry out portions of President Obama’s executive action on immigration even as a federal judge has halted the president’s temporary deportation amnesty.

Republicans seek honorable retreat from homeland security funding fight amid shutdown fears

Sen. Ted Cruz warned the administration Wednesday that it needs to stop even planning for an eventual amnesty for illegal immigrants, saying a federal judge’s broad injunction means it would be illegal for the Homeland Security Department to spend any money on President Obama’s immigration plans.

House Speaker John A. Boehner said Sunday that he is prepared to let the Department of Homeland Security shut down in less than two weeks and that Democrats would be to blame.

President Obama’s temporary deportation amnesty will make it easier for illegal immigrants to improperly register and vote in elections, state elections officials testified to Congress on Thursday, saying that the driver’s licenses and Social Security numbers they will be granted create a major voting loophole.