Okay, you might be asking, but didn't federal courts shut down or otherwise limit most of Trump's big immigration policies? Isn't this the same thing?
Hey, thanks for asking.
No.
Hey, thanks for asking.
No.
The executive has all of the power over how, when, where, & why it chooses to enforce immigration law. A state can't just demand that feds enforce it the way that the state would prefer, any more than it can demand them to issue a Gary Buse commemorative stamp or invade Australia
This is essentially the same argument that TX made to stop Obama's DAPA program (basically DACA for some parents of USCs/LPRs) and it was just as stupid and racist and attenuated then as it is now
https://twitter.com/Haleaziz/status/1354151780607684608?s=19
And yes, I've had plenty to say about giving states some power to keep ICE from enforcing immigration law! But unlike racist arguments re: how taxpayers might use taxpayer-funded services if we don't deport them, there's a real state interest in play here
newrepublic.com/article/153884…
newrepublic.com/article/153884…
*Busey
(And this may not be the commemorative stamp we need, but it is the commemorative stamp we deserve)
(And this may not be the commemorative stamp we need, but it is the commemorative stamp we deserve)
Anyway other than an abject lack of standing, failure to show anything resembling irreparable injury, pretense that TX was making a legal rather political argument, & disregard for the federal government's exclusive jurisdiction over imm enforcement this decision was totally fine
(Although in the DAPA decision TX was big mad that they were going to have to issue driver's licenses at a loss to a lot of newly-documented ppl, which always seemed like much more of a TX problem than anything else)
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