White House will seek emergency order to pursue immigration plan

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On Friday, the White House announced that Justice Department lawyers will ask an appeals court for an emergency order to continue its immigration plan.

The stay would allow the government to continue issuing work permits and to "provide legal protections to hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants while it appeals a judge's ruling halting the programs," The New York Times reports.

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Meghan DeMaria

Meghan DeMaria is a staff writer at TheWeek.com. She has previously worked for USA Today and Marie Claire.