GOP senators file brief challenging Obama’s immigration orders

Published April 4, 2016 8:31pm ET



A group of Senate Republicans announced Monday they filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court against President Obama’s executive actions to allow about 4 million illegal immigrants to temporarily stay in the U.S.

The brief, which was led by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., charges that Obama’s November 2014 executive actions on immigration were illegal because they infringe on “the constitutional principle of the separation of powers.”

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