Immigration is a lawful exercise of the presidents statutorily authorized Executive Power over Foreign Affairs & National Security.
Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN Texas Last year Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit to
defend the presidents original travel ban making Texas the only state at the time to officially support the legality of the policy.
Subsequently
as many as 15 states joined Texas in a series of friend-of-the-court briefs supporting the presidents revised travel bans all the way to the Supreme Court.
The U.S. Supreme Court heard the case in April and with a ruling earlier this morning upheld President Trumps travel ban which confirmed what the Texas coalition had argued that the federal law at issue grants the President broad discretion to suspend the entry of aliens into the United States.
Attorney General Paxton issued the following statement:
Im pleased but hardly surprised that the U.S. Supreme Court upheld President Trumps travel ban. We were confident all along that the executive order on immigration is a lawful exercise of the presidents statutorily authorized executive power over foreign affairs and national security.
The travel ban is a carefully crafted approach to upgrading vetting and national security procedures critical to protecting Texas and the rest of the nation from terrorism.
The Constitution places decisions like that in the hands of the president and Congress not unelected federal judges as the Supreme Court has repeatedly recognized.
The presidents latest travel ban issued last September places temporary restrictions on travel to the U.S. by foreign nationals from seven countries that are terror-prone or have inadequate vetting measures.
