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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

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  1. This is what passes for governance in red states. Pathetic.

  2. Avatar for jsfox jsfox says:

    “unilateral suspension of the Nation’s immigration laws is unlawful.”
    Huh? Approx 400,000 people were deported last year and each year Obama has been office. This number is the absolute maximum that can be deported based on budget and manpower. After President Obama’s executive action how many will be deported? About 400,000, except they will be a highly targeted 400,000 made up of folks I am more than happy to see returned to their respective homelands. If this is suspension of immigration laws these Republican State AGs have a very odd definition of suspension.

  3. The Party of fiscal responsibility wasting tax payer money on a doomed lawsuit. Sorry morons, but the Supreme Court has already said he has the authority.

  4. Waste of time and money.

    How bout instead of theatrical tricks, these governors instead encourage the House and Senate to pass immigration reform???

    Is that too hard?

  5. More frivolous lawsuits from the self-proclaimed party of fiscal responsibility.

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