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Texas Governor Sends Clear Message to Obama After Court Rules Against Executive Immigration Action
In this July 25, 2011 file photo, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott talks with the media as he leaves the Tom Green County Courthouse, in San Angelo, Texas. The slogan goes, Don t Mess With Texas. But these days, a more appropriate cry might be: Try it, Washington, and we ll sue. Abbott has filed 27 lawsuits against the federal government _ litigation that has cost his state nearly $2.8 million. That includes more than $1.5 million in salaries for state employees working on the cases, nearly $250,000 in court costs and the travel expenses of attorney general s office personnel, and roughly $1 million for outside counsel and expert witnesses, according to records obtained by The Associated Press using the Freedom of Information Act. (Credit: AP)

Texas Governor Sends Clear Message to Obama After Court Rules Against Executive Immigration Action

"President Obama should..."

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott sent a clear message to President Barack Obama after a federal appeals court ruled Monday that his plan to use protect approximately 5 million illegal immigrants from deportation though executive order was illegal.

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Praising the 2-1 ruling from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Abbott said Obama should now enforce the laws on the books.

"The court's decision is a vindication for the rule of law and the Constitution," Abbott said in a statement. "The president's job is to enforce the immigration laws, not rewrite them. President Obama should abandon his lawless executive amnesty program and start enforcing the law today.”

On Twitter, Abbott also reacted to the ruling, writing, "The lawsuit I filed to stop Obama's illegal amnesty executive Order won in the Federal Court of Appeals."

Republicans had criticized the plan as an illegal executive overreach when Obama announced it last November. Twenty-six states challenged the plan in court.

The administration argued that the executive branch was within its rights in deciding to defer deportation of selected groups of immigrants, including children who were brought to the U.S. illegally.

The Associated Press contributed to this story.

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