Obama Can’t Wait On Immigration Plan

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says he's done waiting for House Republicans to act on immigration. He says he now plans to act on his own.

Obama announced his intention Monday to take executive action.

Obama says there are enough Republicans and Democrats in the House to pass an immigration bill, and says he would sign it.

But Obama says he's waited for more than a year to give House Speaker John Boehner

space to act. He says Boehner informed him last week that the House won't vote on immigration this year.

Obama says the thousands of unaccompanied children showing up on the border underscore the need to drop the politics and act on immigration.

Court: Teen in Mexico shot by US agent had rights

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) — A U.S. appeals court says a Mexican teenager killed by a Border Patrol agent was protected by the U.S. Constitution even though he was on Mexican soil.

The ruling Monday from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals means the family of 15-year-old Sergio Adrian Hernandez Guereca can move forward with a $25 million lawsuit. The government may appeal the ruling.

U.S. District Judge David Briones had found that the family could not sue because the shooting's affects were "felt in Mexico." But the appeals court said that would allow agents to establish "zones of lawlessness."

Agent Jesus Mesa shot Hernandez in 2010 while trying arrest immigrants who crossed illegally into the United States. Mesa said he was attacked by rock throwers. Agents generally aren't allowed to shoot them.