{"id":22070,"date":"2014-12-11T13:18:43","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T18:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=22070"},"modified":"2014-12-11T13:18:43","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T18:18:43","slug":"now-24-states-are-suing-to-stop-obama%e2%80%99s-unilateral-amnesty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/22070\/now-24-states-are-suing-to-stop-obama%e2%80%99s-unilateral-amnesty\/","title":{"rendered":"Now, 24 States Are Suing to Stop Obama\u2019s Unilateral Amnesty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2014\/12\/10\/politics\/immigration-lawsuit\/index.html \" target=\"_blank\">Nearly half of the States in America<\/a> are now suing the Obama administration to stop the president\u2019s unilateral and unconstitutional directive to grant temporary amnesty and work permits to as many as five million illegal immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>Current Texas Attorney General and incoming Governor Greg Abbott, a Republican, announced four new states <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/42-constitution-and-legal\/2398-inside-the-texas-led-20-state-lawsuit-challenging-obamas-immigration-amnesty \" target=\"_blank\">joining the coalition<\/a> he assembled that is seeking to have the federal courts halt a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dhs.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/publications\/14_1120_memo_deferred_action.pdf \" target=\"_blank\">Department of Homeland Security directive<\/a> that violates both the U.S. Constitution and federal law.<\/p>\n<p>The latest roster includes: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, South Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, West Virginia and Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p>If this trend keeps up, it won\u2019t take much longer for a majority of states to oppose what to all reasonable observers is an unprecedented power grab by this president.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, the federal courts are listening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly half of the States in America are now suing the Obama administration to stop the president\u2019s unilateral and unconstitutional directive to grant temporary amnesty and work permits to as many as five million illegal immigrants. Current Texas Attorney General and incoming Governor Greg Abbott, a Republican, announced four new states joining the coalition he [&hellip;]<\/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":[515,143,2354,981,1912,561],"class_list":["post-22070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-amnesty","tag-barack-obama","tag-courts","tag-immigration","tag-states","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22070","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=22070"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22074,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22070\/revisions\/22074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}