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01-26-2015, 06:42 PM #1
Nevada joins lawsuit challenging Obama’s action on immigration
Posted January 26, 2015 - 12:11pm
Updated January 26, 2015 - 12:46pm
Nevada joins lawsuit challenging Obama’s action on immigration
Adam Laxalt is seen at Vegas PBS in Las Vegas on Oct. 10, 2014. Laxalt announced on Monday that Nevada has joined a lawsuit with more than two dozen states challenging President Barack Obama’s executive action on immigration. (Erik Verduzco/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
By LAURA MYERS
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
Nevada joined a lawsuit with more than two dozen states challenging President Barack Obama’s executive action on immigration that would protect 5 million undocumented immigrants from deportation, Attorney General Adam Laxalt announced Monday, saying the president is “undermining the rule of law.”
“Our immigration system is broken and clearly needs to be fixed,” Laxalt said in a statement. “But just as clearly, the solution is not for the president to act unilaterally disregarding the U.S. Constitution and laws. The solution must be a permanent, legal result that includes, not ignores, the other branches of government and their constitutional roles.
“Anything less is a false hope undermining the rule of law that injures millions of people in America, including many in Nevada,” Laxalt added.
Texas filed the original lawsuit after Obama in November expanded a program to shield from deportation young immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children. At the same time, his executive order offered protection to undocumented immigrants who are relatives of U.S. citizens and permanent residents so families wouldn’t be separated.
The president said he took action because Congress failed to pass comprehensive immigration reform although Obama waited until after the Nov. 4 election in an effort to avoid hurting Democrats at the ballot box.
Nevada Democratic Party Chairwoman Roberta Lange criticized both Laxalt and Gov. Brian Sandoval for joining the lawsuit, saying they “have just sent a clear message to Nevada immigrants that appealing to the anti-immigrant, Tea Party wing of the Republican Party is more important to them than keeping families together.”
“If Brian Sandoval and Adam Laxalt had their way, thousands of Nevadans could face deportation and countless families would be at risk of being torn apart,” Lange said in a statement. “I urge Governor Sandoval to insist Attorney General Laxalt withdraw from this partisan, irresponsible, and mean-spirited lawsuit that is nothing more than a slap in the face to Nevada’s immigrant community.”
Laxalt said Obama should have worked on immigration with Congress, which has sole authority to enact laws.
“The president cannot bypass the peoples’ elected representatives in Congress just because they do not pass the laws he wants, nor can he simply rewrite current law under the guise of ‘prosecutorial discretion,’” Laxalt said.
Laxalt, a Republican, won election in November, partly on a promise to challenge federal overreach.
Nevada became the 26th state to get involved in the lawsuit, which is pending in the Federal District Court in the Southern District of Texas. In addition to Nevada and Texas, the states represented in the lawsuit include Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, West Virginia and Wisconsin.
Contact Laura Myers at lmyers@reviewjournal.com or 702-387-2919. Find her on Twitter: @lmyerslvrj.
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01-26-2015, 07:40 PM #2
Thank you Nevada! Come On, States. We need 14 more to make it a round 40, 80%, an unquestioning majority of states who want our immigration laws enforced.
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01-26-2015, 11:42 PM #3
As a Nevadian......I am PROUD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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01-26-2015, 11:46 PM #4A Nation Without Borders Is Not A Nation - Ronald Reagan
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01-27-2015, 12:11 AM #5
Over Half The States Are Suing Obama For Immigration Actions
Posted: 01/26/2015 6:54 pm EST Updated: 4 hours ago
WASHINGTON -- More than half of U.S. states are now involved in a lawsuit to stop President Barack Obama's executive actions on immigration, with the addition of Nevada and Tennessee announced Monday by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
The 26 states challenging Obama's actions are led by Texas, which filed its lawsuit in December. The lawsuit contends Obama overstepped his constitutional authority in executive actions on immigration that may provide deportation relief and work authorization for up to 5 million people.
"The momentum against the president's lawlessness continues to build with Tennessee and Nevada joining the effort to protect our states from the economic and public safety implications of illegal amnesty," Paxton said in a statement on Monday. "As President Obama himself has said numerous times, he lacks the authority to impose amnesty. His actions represent a blatant case of overreach and clear abuse of power."
A federal judge heard initial arguments on the case Jan. 15. The states are seeking to block implementation of the programs as the lawsuit makes its way through the courts. The judge has not yet ruled.
Obama announced in November that he would create a new program to allow undocumented parents of U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents to obtain temporary work authorization to remain in the country. The administration also plans to expand the 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy, or DACA, that provides similar relief and work permits to undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. years ago as children.
The White House has said the policies fit within the president's authority based on the principle of prosecutorial discretion, allowing immigration enforcement agents to focus on deporting high-priority offenders such as national security threats, convicted criminals and people who recently crossed the border illegally.
A smaller group of states has come together in support of the Obama administration on immigration executive action. Twelve states and the District of Columbia filed an amicus brief siding with the Obama administration on Jan. 12, followed by a group of about 30 mayors on Monday.
The mayors said Friday when announcing their brief that Obama's policies will improve their cities' economies and make residents more willing to engage with police.
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), who supports executive action on immigration, issued a statement Monday afternoon criticizing his state's attorney general for joining the lawsuit.
“This is embarrassing," Reid said. "No other state in the country will benefit more from President Obama’s executive actions than Nevada. The irresponsible decision to join a lawsuit that will cause family separation is harmful to our communities."
The 26 states involved in the lawsuit, according to Texas, are: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia and Wisconsin.
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01-27-2015, 01:19 AM #6
Hey, citizens in those 12 states opposing the lawsuit and supporting Executive Amnesty need to raise holy hell and get your AG or Governor to withdraw or recall their asses. What kind of people would allow their state to support lawlessness that costs them Medicaid dollars, education and health care expenses, deflates the wages of their citizens, trashes up their neighborhoods, steals seats from their native kids, and runs drugs all over and through their communities? Wake Up citizens in these 12 states:
[QUOTE]As The Hill noted, “Attorneys General from California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Vermont and the District of Columbia” joined Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson in a “friend of the court” brief.
The 12 states, citing a left-wing Center for American Progress paper, alleged that Obama’s executive amnesty will bring the states more tax revenue and claimed “that the states don’t have the correct legal standing needed to file a challenge because of those benefits.”
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02-17-2015, 12:25 PM #8NO AMNESTY
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