Rep. Diane Black praised a federal court’s Monday decision to uphold an injunction against part of President Obama’s 2014 executive actions on immigration, and said the decision should help remind Obama that he’s not a “king.”
“The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has dealt an important victory for law abiding immigrants and taught President Obama a much-needed civics lesson,” Black said in a statement. “This president is many things, but a king isn’t one of them. We are a nation of laws and, as this rebuke from the court affirms, he cannot rewrite those laws on a whim to fit his liberal agenda.”
Obama’s executive actions were aimed at deferring the deportation of up to 5 million illegal immigrants, and allowing them to work. But the action went around Congress, and many Republicans said granting these benefits would only encourage more illegal immigration.
“This is the second time that a court has rejected President Obama’s attempted expansion of his unlawful executive amnesty proposal,” Rep. Doug Collins, R-Ga., said in a statement.
Both lawmakers’ home states are among the 26 states that sued the federal government for executive overreach earlier this year.
“With this ruling, the courts have, once again, embarrassed this administration and rightly called out its lawlessness. Now, we must ensure this decision remains intact so that the rule of law is protected,” said Black.
