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    States suing Obama over immigration programs are home to 46% of those who may qualify

    FEBRUARY 11, 2015
    States suing Obama over immigration programs are home to 46% of those who may qualify

    BY MARK HUGO LOPEZ AND JENS MANUEL KROGSTAD

    Less than half – 2.3 million – of the nation’s unauthorized immigrants who potentially qualify for deportation relief and work permits under President Barack Obama’s executive actions live in the 26 states that have joined a lawsuit to stop the move, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis.


    The president’s programs are open to an estimated 5 million unauthorized immigrants who were either brought illegally to the country as children or who are parents with a child who is a U.S. citizen or legal permanent resident, so long as they meet certain requirements.


    A group of states led by Texas filed a lawsuit in December to stop the actions, arguing that the president didn’t have the authority to make the changes. A federal judge heard arguments in January. A ruling could come before Feb. 18, the day the U.S. Department of Homeland Security starts accepting applications from those who arrived in the U.S. as children and have become newly eligible (some have already received relief based on a 2012 program).



    Among the states that have joined the lawsuit, most of the unauthorized immigrants who potentially qualify for relief under the new executive actions are concentrated in just a handful of states. For example, half live in Texas (825,000) and Florida (300,000). Four more states (Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and North Carolina) each have 100,000 or more of these immigrants.


    But many of the states suing have relatively few unauthorized immigrants who may qualify for relief. For example, Maine, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota and West Virginia each have fewer than 5,000 potentially qualified unauthorized immigrants residing in their states. (It’s worth noting all but two states have Republican governors, and all but four had Republican state attorneys general when their cases were filed.)



    Overall, unauthorized immigrants potentially eligible for deportation relief make up about 1.6% of the total U.S. population and 1.5% of the combined population in the 26 states that jointly filed suit.


    Nevada and Texas, both of which have joined the lawsuit, have the greatest statewide concentrations of unauthorized immigrants who could qualify for the programs (3.7% and 3.2%, respectively). Besides these states, four others exceed the national rate: Arizona (2.4%), Utah (1.8%), Idaho (1.8%) and Georgia (1.8%).


    In the remaining 20 states, the shares of their populations that may be eligible are at or below the national average, including 14 states with shares that are less than 1% of their population.

    Some 54% of the unauthorized immigrants who may qualify for relief live in the 24 states that have not joined the lawsuit, as well as the District of Columbia. This is in large part due to California, which alone is home to about 1.2 million of the potentially qualified unauthorized immigrants – about a quarter of the total (24%).

    Twelve of these abstaining states, plus the District of Columbia, have filed a legal brief in support of the president’s executive actions. These 12 states and the district are home to 42% of the unauthorized immigrants who could qualify for the programs.

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    Come on States! We need 10 more to fill in the white spots on the map. The US Supreme Court must have a unified states presentation. And what about you, Missouri? Are you NOT LISTENING to your citizens? Are you blind to the ravages of illegal immigration? Or are you on the take with the cartels behind this madness like everyone else who either supports amnesty or refuses to take a bold stance against it?

    Grow a spine, Missouri, and join the Texas lawsuit to shut down this tragedy. After all, you're the SHOW ME state. It's about time you started showing your stuff and help us stop this disaster. Jay Nixon, you should be ashamed. Missouri was always a united state on important issues, it didn't matter what the politics of the Governor might be, both Republican and Democrat governors always did the right thing by the people of Missouri, and look at you now, standing with a President who cares more for the welfare of illegal aliens than our own citizens. And Claire McCaskill, oh my God, SHAME, SHAME, SHAME on you. What happened to you? How dare you stand with Obama on this stupid dangerous amnesty instead of with the good citizens of Missouri. Well, enjoy your short stint in the Senate, Claire, because trust me, you'll be a two-term Senator only. You would have been a one-term Senator but for the absurd selection of a pro-life wing-nut head case wiggling his way into the race. Missouri Republicans, if you don't get off this anti-woman schtick, you'll be stuck with Claires and their band of Obama Care and Illegal Aliens for the rest of your lives.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Judy View Post
    Come on States! We need 10 more to fill in the white spots on the map. The US Supreme Court must have a unified states presentation. And what about you, Missouri? Are you NOT LISTENING to your citizens? Are you blind to the ravages of illegal immigration? Or are you on the take with the cartels behind this madness like everyone else who either supports amnesty or refuses to take a bold stance against it?

    Grow a spine, Missouri, and join the Texas lawsuit to shut down this tragedy. After all, you're the SHOW ME state. It's about time you started showing your stuff and help us stop this disaster. Jay Nixon, you should be ashamed. Missouri was always a united state on important issues, it didn't matter what the politics of the Governor might be, both Republican and Democrat governors always did the right thing by the people of Missouri, and look at you now, standing with a President who cares more for the welfare of illegal aliens than our own citizens. And Claire McCaskill, oh my God, SHAME, SHAME, SHAME on you. What happened to you? How dare you stand with Obama on this stupid dangerous amnesty instead of with the good citizens of Missouri. Well, enjoy your short stint in the Senate, Claire, because trust me, you'll be a two-term Senator only. You would have been a one-term Senator but for the absurd selection of a pro-life wing-nut head case wiggling his way into the race. Missouri Republicans, if you don't get off this anti-woman schtick, you'll be stuck with Claires and their band of Obama Care and Illegal Aliens for the rest of your lives.
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    Judy wrote:

    And Claire McCaskill, oh my God, SHAME, SHAME, SHAME on you. What happened to you?
    Excellent question, I can remember when Dem Senator's McCaskill, Tester, Byrd, and Dorgan actually voted against an amnesty bill. I believe Dorgan is now retired and of course Sen. Byrd died. Sen. Byrd's death was unfortunate because there was never an illegal amnesty bill he supported! That was the year an amnesty bill actually passed the Senate but was killed in the House by Rep. Sensenbrenner (sp?). Now why the heck isn't McCaskill and Tester supporting funding removal for Obama's amnesty?

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    Quote Originally Posted by MW View Post
    Judy wrote:



    Excellent question, I can remember when Dem Senator's McCaskill, Tester, Byrd, and Dorgan actually voted against an amnesty bill. I believe Dorgan is now retired and of course Sen. Byrd died. Sen. Byrd's death was unfortunate because there was never an illegal amnesty bill he supported! That was the year an amnesty bill actually passed the Senate but was killed in the House by Rep. Sensenbrenner (sp?). Now why the heck isn't McCaskill and Tester supporting funding removal for Obama's amnesty?
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