States Challenging Obama’s Executive Action

With the Executive Action in place, 17 states have filed a federal lawsuit on December 3^rd against Obama’s immigration plans. Various states, including Texas, agree that the President has violated his constitutional duty to enforce laws in place.

Leader of the coalition and Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, says that the President was “abdicating his responsibility to faithfully enforce the laws that were duly enacted by Congress and attempting to rewrite immigration laws, which he has no authority to do.”

Mr. Abbott is supported by 17 other states and angry Republicans nationwide, in challenging Obama’s executive action that proposes protection from deportation for over five million illegals.

While some officials are still divided on Obama’s executive action, many believe that the President has overstepped his constitutional boundaries.

States that are supporting Mr. Abbott’s lawsuit are: Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Mississippi, and Maine.

Greg Abbott told audiences at public events and political rallies, “I go into the office, I sue the federal government and I go home.”

Mr. Abbott has been Texas’ attorney general for over 12 years and this lawsuit is his 31^st legal challenge against the Obama administration, and the 34^th against the federal government.