By Robert Laurie ——Bio and Archives--December 12, 2014
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A coalition of 17 U.S. states sued the Obama administration on Wednesday saying it acted illegally by issuing an executive order to ease the threat of deportation for millions of immigrants who are in the country without the proper documents. The case being led by Texas and filed at the Federal Court in the Southern District of Texas said the executive order announced by Obama last month violated constitutional limits on presidential powers. Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, a Republican and the Texas governor-elect, said the lawsuit is not asking for monetary damages but is seeking to have the order declared illegal.Back then the states involved were: Alabama Georgia Idaho Indiana Kansas Louisiana Maine Mississippi Montana Nebraska North Carolina South Carolina South Dakota Texas Utah West Virginia Wisconsin
Hanen, who was appointed to the bench in 2002 by President Bush, is no stranger to immigration-related cases. In 2013, Hanen issued an order in a child smuggling case castigating the Obama administration for completing a "criminal conspiracy." In that case, U.S. v Nava-Martinez, an illegal immigrant living in Virginia paid defendant Mirtha Veronica Nava-Martinez $6,000 to smuggle her child from El Salvador to Virginia. Nava-Martinez, who had no relation to the mother or the child, was then caught at the border with the child by Customs and Border Protection agents. Department of Homeland Security officials then notified the mother that they had her child and arranged for the child to be delivered to her at taxpayer expense, "thus successfully completing the mission of the criminal conspiracy," Judge Hanen wrote. "[DHS] did not arrest her. It did not even initiate deportation proceedings against her. This DHS policy is a dangerous course of action."Surely, Democrats will be lining up to blame all of this on evil, racist, conservatives. Unfortunately, they're going to have trouble with that plan, since Obama's unilateral amnesty has always been extremely unpopular. That doesn't show any signs of changing. Blaming the Republican opposition for stopping something no one wants? Sounds like a solid strategy to me.
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