Posted on 10/13/2016 5:50:00 AM PDT by Elderberry
High-powered immigrant advocacy organizations filed a lawsuit Wednesday to try to kick-start President Obama’s deportation amnesty, arguing that the Texas judge who halted the program two years ago can’t bind the rest of the country to his decision.
The groups filed a challenge in Illinois, building on a similar lawsuit filed over the summer in New York. If either one is successful, it could ignite a stampede of copycats, creating a patchwork across the country where Homeland Security would have to issue work permits and stays of deportation to some illegal immigrants, but would be barred from approving applications from someone just over the line in another court’s jurisdiction.
The Obama administration declined to comment, citing the pending case. But it is already fighting back in the New York lawsuit, arguing it has to follow the nationwide injunction imposed by Judge Andrew S. Hanen in February 2015 and upheld twice by a federal appeals court.
That ruling was sustained when the Supreme Court deadlocked, 4-4, in June.
Immigration advocates, however, say that since the tie ruling doesn’t create a national precedent, illegal immigrants can ask lower courts to take a look at the issue and decide whether they’ll be bound by Judge Hanen and the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
“Their argument is potent but simple: What gives a federal judge in Brownsville, Texas, the authority to make decisions that alter their lives?” said David Leopold, a past president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association.
Michael Hethmon, a lawyer at the Immigration Reform Law Institute, said the challenge is not so much about immigration as it is about the legal boundaries of the judge’s ruling.
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They want as many illegal immigrants as possible here for the first week or so of November....
Tunnel down into any of these ‘organizations’ deep enough and you will find Marxists.
How about Texas send the rest of the nation all its illegals?
Every one of these bastards in this so called “lobby” need to be deported. ASAP!
This is why Trump needs to ignore the floozies and concentrate on the few big issues that got him here so far.
How is this even a straight faced question?
My argument is simple and far more potent. American’s not only have the right to interfere in their lives, but to end them.
Why should any of us attend to any one who claims they have any legitimate authority to tell any of us anything. None of us are bound by law anymore.
Talk about jury nullification. Any one prosecuted for a crime at this point can just read Wikileaks into the record until the jury begs for the case so they can go home.
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