3 States Join 17 States Fighting Immigration Order
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AUSTIN (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Three more states have joined a Texas-led multistate coalition suing over the Obama administration's recently announced executive actions on immigration.
The addition of Arizona, Florida and Ohio brings to 20 the number of states fighting the order in a federal district court in Brownsville.
Many top Republicans have denounced the president's unilateral move. Under the President's order, more than five million people here illegally who have lived in the U.S. for five years or longer won't face deportation and can get temporary work permits as long as they don't have criminal records.
But Texas Governor-elect Greg Abbott took it a step further with filing a lawsuit in federal court in the Southern District of Texas.
Most of the 20 states participating in the lawsuit are in the South and Midwest, but Abbott argues that Texas could be uniquely hurt by the executive orders because of its large border.
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