Arizona, Florida and Ohio join multi-state lawsuit over Obama's immigration order [TOTAL: 20]

Latino Fox News ^ | 12/08/2014

[SeekAndFind]

AUSTIN, Texas -- Three more states have joined a Texas-led multistate coalition suing over the Obama administration’s recently announced executive actions on immigration.

The addition of Arizona, Florida and Ohio brings to 20 the number of states fighting the order in a federal district court in Brownsville.

Many top Republicans have denounced the president’s unilateral move designed to spare as many as 5 million people living illegally in the United States from deportation.

But Texas Gov.-elect Greg Abbott took it a step further with filing a lawsuit in federal court in the Southern District of Texas.

Most of the 20 states participating in the lawsuit are in the South and Midwest, but Abbott argues that Texas could be uniquely hurt by the executive orders because of its large border.

Announced Nov. 20, Obama's order extends protection from deportation and the right to work to an estimated 4.1 million parents of U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents who have lived in the country for at least five years and to hundreds of thousands more young people.

[ExTxMarine]

A second question is whether he can affirmatively provide them with IDs and legal status even if he has the power to not prosecute based on "prosecutorial discretion".

BINGO! Not prosecuting someone is actually within his rights as President to decide - I agree it is not justified - but, affording them legal status and benefits such as welfare, work permits, etc... IS an action which would require appropriated funding and authority from Congress, as they are listed as the people who make the rules governing immigration.

This is like the DA refusing to prosecute a known, guilty bank robber; but then demanding the bank which he robbed, to allow the known, guilty bank-robber to open an account there - using the money he stole from the bank!!

It is one thing not to prosecute, it is another to force the victims to service the attacker!

[YankeeinOkieville]

I don’t understand what Oklahoma’s hesitancy to join this effort is. We should’ve been on board from the beginning.

[secondamendmentkid]

I realize this is a little bit off topic but it always hacks me off that suits such as this one, gun rights suits, pro-life suits, et al take eons to clear the legal maze while suits for homo marriage, abortion, abolishing voter ID, inhibiting states rights, etc. get action from the renegade judiciary seemingly overnight.

A confluence of a multitude of events in our society is helping us become a banana republic. The new Congress is already demonstrating its incompetence. Maybe secession should be put on the table.

[2harddrive]

Roses are red, violets are blue;
Obamacare’s funded, and now Amnesty too!

The preceding is a lament about the Repubs rolling over, even funding the transport of HUNDREDS of dying Ebola patients to the US to infect the rest of us.