Big city mayors support Obama’s immigration executive action

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Posted by Kemberlee Kaye ▪ Monday, January 26, 2015 at 2:02pm

 

Welfare v. Constitutional limitations

 

Earlier this month, twelve states joined forces to file an amicus curiae in support of President Obama’s immigration executive overreach.

 

Now, a group of mayors are organizing their own campaign to support the president’s executive overreach.

 

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and Los Angeles’s Eric Garcetti are leading a group of more than 30 big city mayors, the National League of Cities, and the U.S. Conference of Mayors, who plan to file a similar amicus brief on behalf of the president. Like the states supporting the president via amici in Texas v. United States, the mayoral amicus brief states that, “public interest across the country is served clearly and overwhelmingly by implementing immigration reform by executive action,” according to a statement released from de Blasio’s office.