O's Immigration: Illegals Lose Public Support, States File Lawsuit

"Seventeen states are involved in a lawsuit filed Wednesday challenging President Obama's executive actions on immigration," reports Breitbart. "Texas, Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Montana, Nebraska, South Caroline, South Dakota, Utah, West Virginia, Wisconsin and the governors of Mississippi, Maine, North Carolina and Idaho filed the suit in U.S. District Court in the Southern District of Texas."

The lawsuit argues:

• The executive action on immigration conflicts with the President’s constitutional duty to “take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.” The Take Care Clause limits the scope of presidential power and ensures that the chief executive will uphold and enforce Congress’s laws – not unilaterally rewrite them under the cover of “prosecutorial discretion.”
• The DHS Directive failed to comply with the Administrative Procedure Act’s required notice and comment rulemaking process before providing that legal benefits like federal work permits, Medicare, and Social Security be awarded to individuals who are openly violating immigration laws.
• The executive action to dispense with federal immigration law will exacerbate the humanitarian crisis along the southern border, which will affect increased state investment in law enforcement, health care and education.

Polls also find public support for illegal immigrants is falling.

• Quinnipiac reported "that support for immigrants is at its lowest level" ever measured by the poll:  48% now say illegals should be allowed to stay, compared to 57% a year ago.
• A post-Obama Economist/YouGov poll found that only "47% now favor providing those here illegally having a path toward citizenship ... In February, more than half favored some sort of pathway to citizenship."

Sources:
17 States File Lawsuit Challenging Executive Amnesty, Caroline May, Breitbart
Quinnipiac University Poll press release, Nov 25, 2014
Only Democrats Support Obama's Executive Order on Immigration, Kathy Frankovic, Economist/YouGov Poll, Dec 2, 2014