Reuters / Yahoo News - States sue Obama administration on immigration: Texas attorney general [Go for it! Although of course the case will probably come before a smirking liberal judge. This fight has many honorable fronts, the most important being impeaching and convicting a lawless virulently anti-European president.]

States sue Obama administration on immigration: Texas attorney general

Demonstrators picket against the possible arrivals of undocumented migrants who may be processed at the Murrieta Border Patrol Station in Murrieta, California July 1, 2014. REUTERS/Sam Hodgson

AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Texas is leading a 17-state coalition that sued the Obama administration on Wednesday over its executive order to ease the threat of deportation for some 4.7 million undocumented immigrants, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott said.

The case filed at the Federal Court in the Southern District of Texas said the executive order was unlawful.

Abbott, a Republican and the Texas governor-elect added the order requires federal agencies "to award large benefits to individuals whose conduct contradicts the priorities of Congress."

With 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States, Obama's plan would let some 4.4 million who are parents of U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents to remain in the country temporarily, without the threat of deportation.

"The President is abdicating his responsibility to faithfully enforce laws that were duly enacted by Congress and attempting to rewrite immigration laws, which he has no authority to do," Abbott said. ...

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