South Carolina Joins Lawsuit Against President

(WOLO) COLUMBIA,S.C., — ” south carolina is not going to stand for this.” Governor Nikki Haley and Attorney General Alan Wilson vowing to challenge the president’s decision. joining in on a lawsuit spurred by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott – who wants a court to declare the president’s actions illegal. The Governor and South Carolina Attorney General say what the President has done is ignore the law in order to protect millions of illegal immigrants from being deported. ” There’s a constitutional imperative that we take the action we’re taking right now. challenging the presidents decision to give preferred status to 4 million of the 11 million undocumented aliens currently in the us. this lawsuit is about the rule of law, it’s about upholding the constitution.” But the Obama administration says they are doing just that. According to the white house the president’s actions fall well within Presidential power. Still, more than a dozen states including South Carolina fail to agree. and are now hoping to have a federal court block the order by finding the president’s actions illegal.