Texas Attorney General Greg Abbot on Wednesday filed a lawsuit along with 16 other states over President Obama’s executive order delaying the deportation of about 5 million undocumented immigrants.
The lawsuit claims that Obama’s “unilateral suspension of the Nation’s immigration laws is unlawful.”
Abbot announced in November that he planned to bring a lawsuit against the administration. He argued that the executive action violates the “take care” clause in the constitution aimed at limiting the president’s authority.
In a press conference on Wednesday, Abbott said that Obama did not “faithfully execute” the law, according to the Dallas Morning News.
Texas was joined by Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Montana, Nebraska, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Mississippi, Main, and North Carolina in suing the Obama administration.
17 State Lawsuit Over President Obama’s Immigration Executive Order
