Posted on 12/08/2014 7:56:32 PM PST by SeekAndFind
AUSTIN, Texas -- Three more states have joined a Texas-led multistate coalition suing over the Obama administrations 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 presidents 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.
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I don’t understand what Oklahoma’s hesitancy to join this effort is. We should’ve been on board from the beginning.
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.
Roses are red, violets are blue;
Obamacares 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.
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