Though it did not make any ruling on the merits- it merely extended a stay of the program while it is under judicial review.

A federal appeals court refused Tuesday to allow President Obama's program to protect millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation from going into effect.

The decision by a three-judge panel of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans adds another delay for the undocumented immigrants who could have been protected under the president's order. A federal judge blocked Obama's plan in February, hours before many of them were to start applying for the new program.

Obama announced in 2012 that he would allow undocumented immigrants brought to the country as children to register with the federal government in exchange for two-year protections from deportation. In November, he said Congress had yet to fix the nation's broken immigration system, so he would move to protect even more undocumented immigrants.
Tuesday's ruling is highly technical in any event.

Cornell University Law School professor Stephen Yale-Loehr, an immigration specialist, said the ruling only involved whether the program could proceed while it was challenged in the court. It did not, he said, deal with the merits of the case.

"The court of appeals merely held that the district court did not err when it held that Texas had standing to sue," Yale-Loehr said. "The true test will be on the merits of the case. That could be a few years down the road, after a trial."
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