(Washington, DC) – U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) issued the following statement today regarding the Department of Justice appeal of the federal trial court order blocking President Obama’s immigration directives: “I applaud the Department of Justice’s action today swiftly appealing the deeply flawed and destructively wrong federal trial court order blocking President Obama’s immigration directives. The trial court decision was misguided both legally and factually, rooted in bias, and I am confident that it will be decisively reversed on appeal. I have spoken to families across Connecticut who were dismayed and disturbed by the ruling—whose loved ones must now continue to wait in legal limbo, under constant fear of deportation. The President’s actions are well within his authority, and will bolster the American economy, create jobs at home, end the exploitation of powerless undocumented workers and make us all safer by bringing millions of immigrants out of the shadows. Any further delay in implementing these directives harms us all,” Blumenthal said.