{"id":15652,"date":"2012-08-29T12:24:19","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T16:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=15652"},"modified":"2012-08-29T12:24:19","modified_gmt":"2012-08-29T16:24:19","slug":"heritage-courts-can-easily-sidestep-ice-agents-deferred-action-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/15652\/heritage-courts-can-easily-sidestep-ice-agents-deferred-action-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Heritage: Courts Can Easily Sidestep ICE Agents’ Deferred Action Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach filed a lawsuit<\/a> on behalf of 10 Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents challenging President Barack Obama\u2019s \u201cdeferred action\u201d program.<\/p>\n

In a recent column I explained how the President\u2019s decision to instruct federal law enforcement not to enforce relevant immigration law<\/a> is giving some state governments an excuse to further legitimize illegal immigration.<\/p>\n

Now the Heritage Foundation is out with an issue brief<\/a> analyzing the prospects of the ICE agents\u2019 lawsuit.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t look good:<\/p>\n

The plaintiffs will have a tough row to hoe, regardless of how abusive this new initiative may be in terms of violating the spirit\u2014if not the letter\u2014of the Constitution\u2019s separation of powers, as well as the executive\u2019s obligation to \u201ctake Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.\u201d Although the challenge is by no means frivolous, a court may be reluctant to conclude that the plaintiffs have standing.<\/p>\n

Even if they are able to establish an \u201cinjury in fact,\u201d a court may be tempted to cite prudential standing rules in order to avoid reaching the merits, and to avoid encouraging federal officials to defy orders of their supervisors as a prelude to challenging the legality of those orders in court. As the Supreme Court stated in Gladstone, Realtors v. Village of Bellwood<\/em> (1979), \u201ca plaintiff may still lack standing under the prudential principles by which the judiciary seeks to avoid deciding questions of broad social import where no individual rights would be vindicated and to limit access to the federal courts to those litigants best suited to assert a particular claim.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Key Takeaway:<\/span> This is a political issue that requires a well thought out policy solution.\u00a0 Paul Ryan dedicated his career thus far to making the conservative case for budget and entitlement reform.\u00a0 It\u2019s time for another enterprising Member of Congress to do the same with immigration reform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach filed a lawsuit on behalf of 10 Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents challenging President Barack Obama\u2019s \u201cdeferred action\u201d program. In a recent column I explained how the President\u2019s decision to instruct federal law enforcement not to enforce relevant immigration law is giving some state governments an excuse […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[515,143,3778,3784,1553,981,1451],"class_list":["post-15652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-amnesty","tag-barack-obama","tag-deferred-action","tag-ice","tag-illegal","tag-immigration","tag-kris-kobach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15652"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15657,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15652\/revisions\/15657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}