The courts had it easy during the previous administration.
Seven Republican-led states have filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration to end the 2012 Obama-era program that protects immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children from the threat of deportation.
The Attorneys general of Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Nebraska, South Carolina, Texas, and West Virginia filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas on Tuesday challenging the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
The seven-state coalition wants the court to stop the Department of Homeland Security from issuing or renewing future DACA permits.
“Our lawsuit is about the rule of law, not the wisdom of any particular immigration policy,” Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said in a statement. “Texas has argued for years that the federal executive branch lacks the power to unilaterally grant unlawfully present aliens lawful presence and work authorization. Left intact, DACA sets a dangerous precedent by giving the executive branch sweeping authority to ignore the laws enacted by Congress and change our nation’s immigration laws to suit a president’s own policy preferences.”