The President's Commonsense Executive Actions on Immigration

The President’s Commonsense Executive Actions on Immigration Are Lawful

For the last half century, presidents of both parties have used their authority to set priorities in enforcing our immigration laws. That legal authority has been recognized by the Supreme Court, Congress, the Department of Justice, legal scholars, mayors, and top law enforcement officials from across the nation. The organizations and individuals below have all made clear that the President’s executive actions on immigration fall well within his authority.

Constitutional Law Scholars

Bruce Ackerman Eric Posner Sterling Professor of Law and Kirkland and Ellis Distinguished Service Political Science Professor of Law Yale Law School University of Chicago Law School

Lee C. Bollinger Cristina Rodríguez President Leighton Homer Surbeck Professor of Law Columbia University Yale Law School

Tom Campbell Christopher H. Schroeder Dean, Donald P. Kennedy Professor in Law Charles S. Murphy Professors of Law and Chapman University Fowler School of Law Professor of Public Policy Studies Duke University Erwin Chemerinsky Dean and Distinguished Professor of Law Ilya Somin University of California Irvine Professor of Law School of Law George Mason University School of Law

Adam B. Cox Geoffrey R. Stone Professor of Law Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service New York University School of Law Professor of Law The University of Chicago Walter E. Dellinger III Douglas B. Maggs Professor of Law David A. Strauss Duke University and O’Melveny & Myers, Gerald Ratner Distinguished Service Washington, D.C. Professor of Law University of Chicago Law School Harold Hongju Koh Sterling Professor of International Law Laurence H. Tribe Yale Law School Carl M. Loeb University Professor and Professor of Constitutional Law Gillian Metzger Harvard Law School Stanley H. Fuld Professor of Law Columbia Law School

Immigration Law Experts

David Abraham Jacqueline Bhabha Professor of Law Professor of the Practice of Health University of Miami School of Law and Human Rights Harvard School of Public Health Raquel Aldana Lecturer in Law Associate Dean for Faculty Scholarship Harvard Law School Professor of Law, University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law Linda Bosniak Distinguished Professor Farrin R. Anello Rutgers University School of Law-Camden Visiting Assistant Clinical Professor Seton Hall University School of Law Richard A. Boswell Professor of Law & Associate Dean for Deborah Anker Global Programs Clinical Professor of Law and Director, U.C. Hastings College of the Law Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic Harvard Law School Jason A. Cade Assistant Professor of Law Sabrineh Ardalan University of Georgia Law School Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School Assistant Director, Harvard Immigration and Janet Calvo Refugee Clinical Program Professor of Law CUNY School of Law, New York David C. Baluarte Assistant Clinical Professor of Law Kristina M. Campbell Director, Immigrant Rights Clinic Associate Professor of Law and Director, Washington and Lee University Immigration and Human Rights Clinic School of Law University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law Melynda Barnhart Professor of Law Stacy Caplow New York Law School Professor of Law and Associate Dean of Professional Legal Education Jon Bauer Brooklyn Law School Clinical Professor of Law and Richard D. Tulisano ’69 Scholar in Human Rights Benjamin Casper Director, Asylum and Human Rights Clinic Visiting Associate Clinical Professor University of Connecticut School of Law University of Minnesota Law School

Lenni B. Benson Linus Chan Professor of Law Visiting Associate Professor of Clinical Law Director, Safe Passage Project University of Minnesota New York Law School

Howard F. Chang Niels Frenzen Earle Hepburn Professor of Law Clinical Professor of Law University of Pennsylvania Law School Gould School of Law University of Southern California Michael J. Churgin Raybourne Thompson Centennial Maryellen Fullerton Professor in Law Professor of Law University of Texas at Austin Brooklyn Law School

Marisa Cianciarulo César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández Professor of Law Visiting Professor Director, Bette & Wylie Aitken Family University of Denver Sturm College of Law Violence Clinic Chapman University Dale E. Fowler Lauren Gilbert School of Law Professor of Law St. Thomas University School of Law Evelyn Cruz Clinical Professor of Law Denise L. Gilman Director, Immigration Law & Policy Clinic Clinical Professor Arizona State University Co-Director, Immigration Clinic Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law University of Texas School of Law

Ingrid Eagly John F. Gossart, Jr. Assistant Professor of Law Adjunct Professor of Law UCLA School of Law University of Baltimore School of Law University of Maryland School of Law Philip Eichorn United States Immigration Judge, retired Adjunct Professor - Immigration Law Cleveland State - Cleveland Marshall School Pratheepan Gulasekaram of Law Associate Professor of Law Santa Clara University Bram T. Elias Clinical Visiting Associate Professor Anju Gupta University of Iowa College of Law Associate Professor of Law Director, Immigrant Rights Clinic Stella Burch Elias Rutgers School of Law – Newark Associate Professor of Law University of Iowa College of Law Susan R. Gzesh Senior Lecturer & Executive Director Jill E. Family Pozen Family Center for Human Rights Professor of Law University of Chicago Director, Law & Government Institute Widener University School of Law Jonathan Hafetz Associate Professor of Law Seton Hall University

Dina Francesca Haynes Kate Jastram Professor of Law and Lecturer in Residence Director of Human Rights and Immigration Executive Director, The Honorable G. Law Project William & Ariadna Miller Institute for Global New England Law, Boston Challenges and the Law University of California, Berkeley, Susan Hazeldean School of Law Associate Clinical Professor Cornell Law School Kit Johnson Associate Professor of Law Ernesto Hernández-López University of Oklahoma College of Law Professor of Law Fowler School of Law, Chapman University Anil Kalhan Associate Professor of Law Laura A. Hernandez Drexel University Kline School of Law Professor Baylor Law School Daniel Kanstroom Professor of Law, Dean’s Research Scholar, Michael Heyman Director, International Human Rights Program Professor of Law Boston College Law School John Marshall Law School Elizabeth Keyes Barbara Hines Assistant Professor Clinical Professor of Law University of Baltimore School of Law Co-Director, Immigration Clinic University of Texas School of Law Kathleen Kim Professor of Law Laila L. Hlass Loyola Law School Los Angeles Clinical Associate Professor Boston University School of Law David C. Koelsch Associate Professor Geoffrey Hoffman Immigration Law Clinic Clinical Assoc. Professor University of Detroit Mercy School of Law Director, Immigration Clinic University of Houston Law Center Jennifer Lee Koh Associate Professor of Law and Mary Holper Director, Immigration Clinic Associate Clinical Professor Western State College of Law Boston College Law School Kevin Lapp Alan Hyde Associate Professor of Law Distinguished Professor and Loyola Law School, Los Angeles Sidney Reitman Scholar Rutgers University School of Law - Newark

Christopher Lasch Miriam H. Marton Associate Professor of Law Director, Tulsa Immigrant Resource Network University of Denver Sturm College of Law Visiting Assistant Clinical Professor of Law University of Tulsa College of Law Stephen H. Legomsky The John S. Lehmann University Professor Elizabeth McCormick Washington University School of Law Associate Clinical Professor of Law Director, Immigrant Rights Project Jennifer J. Lee Director, Clinical Education Programs Clinical Assistant Professor University of Tulsa College of Law Legal Director, Sheller Center for Social Justice M. Isabel Medina Temple University Beasley School of Law Ferris Family Distinguished Professor of Law, Loyola University New Orleans Stephen Lee College of Law Professor of Law University of California, Irvine Stephen Meili Vaughan G. Papke Clinical Professor in Law, Christine Lin University of Minnesota Law School Clinical Instructor / Staff Attorney Center for Gender & Refugee Studies Vanessa Merton Refugee & Human Rights Clinic Professor of Law University of California, Hastings College of Pace University School of Law the Law Andrew Moore Beth Lyon Associate Professor of Law Professor of Law University of Detroit Mercy School of Law Director, Farmworker Legal Aid Clinic Co-Director, Community Interpreter Jennifer Moore Internship Program Professor of Law Acting Director of Clinical Programs Weihofen Professorship Villanova University School of Law University of New Mexico School of Law

Stephen Manning Daniel I. Morales Adjunct Professor of Law Assistant Professor of Law Lewis & Clark College DePaul University College of Law

Lynn Marcus Nancy Morawetz Professor of the Practice Professor of Clinical Law Co-Director, Immigration Law Clinic Co-Director, Immigrant Rights Clinic University of Arizona James E. Rogers NYU School of Law College of Law

Karen Musalo Sunita Patel Bank of America Foundation Chair in Practitioner-in-Residence, International Law Civil Advocacy Clinic Professor & Director, Center for Gender & American University, Washington Refugee Studies College of Law U.C. Hastings College of the Law Huyen Pham Hiroshi Motomura Associate Dean for Faculty Research & Susan Westerberg Prager Professor of Law Development University of California, Los Angeles, Professor of Law School of Law Texas A&M University School of Law

Alizabeth Newman Michele R. Pistone Clinic Law Professor Professor of Law Immigrant & NonCitizens Rights Clinic Villanova University School of Law CUNY School of Law Luis F.B. Plascencia Noah Novogrodsky Assistant Professor Professor of Law School of Social and Behavioral Sciences University of Wyoming College of Law Arizona State University

Fernando A. Nuñez Polly J. Price Visiting Assistant Professor of Law Professor of Law Charlotte School of Law Emory University School of Law

Mariela Olivares Doris Marie Provine Associate Professor of Law Professor Emerita, Justice & Social Inquiry Howard University School of Law School of Social Transformation Arizona State University Michael A. Olivas William B. Bates Distinguished Chair in Law Nina Rabin and Director, Institute for Higher Education Associate Clinical Professor of Law Law and Governance Director, Bacon Immigration Law and Policy University of Houston Law Center Program, James E. Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona Patrick D. O’Neill, Esq. Adjunct Professor of Immigration Law Jaya Ramji-Nogales University of Puerto Rico School of Law Professor of Law Co-Director, Institute for International Law Sarah Paoletti and Public Policy Practice Professor of Law Temple University, Beasley School of Law University of Pennsylvania Law School Renee C. Redman Adjunct Professor of Law University of Connecticut School of Law

Ediberto Roman Philip Schrag Professor of Law & Director of Citizenship Delaney Family Professor of Public Interest and Immigration Initiatives Law, Georgetown University Law Center Florida International University Bijal Shah Victor C. Romero Acting Assistant Professor Maureen B. Cavanaugh Distinguished Faculty NYU School of Law Scholar & Professor of Law Penn State Law Ragini Shah Clinical Professor of Law Joseph H. Rosen Suffolk University Law School Adjunct Professor Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School Careen Shannon Adjunct Professor of Law and Director, Carrie Rosenbaum Immigration Law Field Clinic Professor of Immigration Law Yeshiva University, Benjamin N. Cardozo Golden Gate University School of Law School of Law

Rachel E. Rosenbloom Anna Williams Shavers Associate Professor Cline Williams Professor of Citizenship Law Northeastern University School of Law University of Nebraska College of Law

Rubén G. Rumbaut Bryn Siegel Professor of Sociology, Criminology, Professor, Immigration Law Law and Society Pacific Coast University School of Law University of California, Irvine Anita Sinha Ted Ruthizer Practitioner-in-Residence, American Lecturer in Law University, Washington College of Law Columbia Law School Dan R. Smulian Leticia M. Saucedo Associate Professor of Clinical Law Professor of Law and Co-Director, Safe Harbor Project Director of Clinical Legal Education Brooklyn Law School UC Davis School of Law Gemma Solimene Heather Scavone Clinical Associate Professor of Law Assistant Professor of Law Fordham University School of Law Director of the Humanitarian Immigration Law Clinic Jayashri Srikantiah Elon University School of Law Professor of Law and Director, Immigrants’ Rights Clinic Andrew I. Schoenholtz Stanford Law School Professor from Practice Georgetown Law

Juliet Stumpf Diane Uchimiya Professor of Law Professor of Law Lewis & Clark Law School Director of Experiential Learning Director of the Justice and Immigration Clinic Maureen A. Sweeney University of La Verne College of Law Law School Associate Professor University of Maryland Carey School of Law Gloria Valencia-Weber Professor Emerita Barbara Szweda University of New Mexico School of Law Associate Professor, Lincoln Memorial University Duncan School of Law Sheila I. Vélez Martínez Assistant Clinical Professor of Law Margaret H. Taylor University of Pittsburgh School of Law Professor of Law Wake Forest University School of Law Alex Vernon Acting Director of Asylum and Immigrant David Thronson Rights Law Clinic Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Visiting Assistant Professor of Law Professor of Law Ave Maria School of Law Michigan State University College of Law Rose Cuison Villazor Allison Brownell Tirres Professor of Law & Martin Luther King Jr. Associate Professor & Associate Dean of Hall Research Scholar, University of Academic Affairs California at Davis School of Law DePaul University College of Law Leti Volpp Scott Titshaw Robert D. and Leslie Kay Raven Professor of Associate Professor Law, University of California, Berkeley Mercer University School of Law Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia Phil Torrey Samuel Weiss Faculty Scholar and Clinical Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School Professor of Law Clinical Instructor, Harvard Immigration and Pennsylvania State University Dickinson Refugee Clinical Program School of Law Harvard Law School Jonathan Weinberg Enid Trucios-Haynes Professor of Law Interim Director, Muhammad Ali Institute for Wayne State University Peace and Justice; Professor of Law Louis D. Brandeis School of Law Deborah M. Weissman University of Louisville Reef C. Ivey II Distinguished Professor of Law, School of Law, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Lisa Weissman-Ward Michael J. Wishnie Clinical Supervising Attorney & Lecturer in William O. Douglas Clinical Professor of Law Law, Stanford Law School and Deputy Dean for Experiential Education Yale Law School Anna R. Welch Associate Clinical Professor Stephen Yale-Loehr University of Maine School of Law Adjunct Professor Cornell University Law School Virgil O. Wiebe Professor of Law Elizabeth Lee Young Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi Director of Associate Professor of Law Clinical Education University of Arkansas School of Law Co-Director, Interprofessional Center for Counseling and Legal Services University of St. Thomas School of Law, Minneapolis

Former General Counsels of the Immigration and Naturalization Service and former Chief Counsels of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

Stephen Legomsky Paul W. Virtue The John S. Lehmann University Professor Partner Washington University School of Law Mayer Brown LLP Former Chief Counsel, U.S. Citizenship and Former General Counsel, Immigration and Immigration Services Naturalization Service

Roxana Bacon Bo Cooper Former Chief Counsel, U.S. Citizenship and Partner Immigration Services Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loew Former General Counsel, Immigration and Naturalization Service

Chief Law Enforcement Officers

Major Cities Chiefs Association Chief Charlie Beck Los Angeles, California Police Executive Research Forum Police Department

Chief Art Acevedo Chief Richard S. Biehl City of Austin, Texas Dayton, Ohio Police Department Police Department

Chief Chris Burbank Sheriff Bill McCarthy Salt Lake City, Utah Polk County, Iowa Police Department Sheriff’s Office

Sheriff Mark C. Curran Jr. Chief Roy W. Minter, Jr. Lake County, Illinois Peoria, Arizona Sheriff’s Office Police Department

Sheriff Tony Estrada Lieutenant Andy Norris Santa Cruz County, Arizona Tuscaloosa County, Alabama Sheriff’s Office Sheriff’s Office

Commissioner William B. Evans Chief Kathleen O’Toole Boston, Massachusetts Seattle, Washington Police Department Police Department

Sheriff Adrian Garcia Commissioner Charles Ramsey Harris County, Texas Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Sheriff’s Office Police Department

Sheriff Marlin Gusman Chief Greg Suhr New Orleans Parish, Louisiana San Francisco, California Sheriff's Office Police Department

Chief James Hawkins Chief Ron Teachman Garden City, Kansas South Bend, Indiana Police Department Police Department

Chief Dwight Henninger Chief Michael Tupper Vail, Colorado Marshalltown, Iowa Police Department Police Department

Chief Michael C. Koval Sheriff John Urquhart Madison, Wisconsin King County, Washington Police Department Sheriff’s Office

Chief Jose L. Lopez, Sr. Sheriff Lupe Valdez Durham, North Carolina Dallas County, Texas Police Department; Sheriff’s Department

Sheriff Leon Lott Chief Roberto Villaseñor Richland County, South Carolina Tucson, Arizona Sheriff’s Department Police Department

Chief Robert White Sheriff Richard D. Wiles Denver, Colorado El Paso County, Texas Police Department Sheriff’s Office

Mayors

The United States Nan Whaley Michael A. Nutter Conference of Mayors Mayor of the City of Mayor of Philadelphia Dayton, OH National League of Cities Bill Peduto Michael B. Hancock Mayor of the City of Tom Barrett Mayor of the City and Pittsburgh Mayor of Milwaukee County of Denver Charlie Hales Virg Bernero Muriel Bowser Mayor of Portland Mayor of Lansing Mayor of Washington, DC Jorge O. Elorza Bill de Blasio Riley Rogers Mayor of the City of Mayor of New York Mayor of the Village of Providence Dolton Eric Garcetti John Dickert Mayor of the City of Los Pedro Segarra Mayor of the City of Angeles Mayor of the City of Racine Hartford Kasim Reed Tom Butt Mayor of Atlanta Annise D. Parker Mayor of the City of Mayor of Houston Richmond, CA Stephanie Rawlings-Blake Mayor of Baltimore City Steven M. Fulop Lovely Warren Mayor of the City of Mayor of the City of Byron W. Brown Jersey City Rochester, NY Mayor of the City of Buffalo Paul Soglin Ralph Becker Mayor of Madison Mayor of Salt Lake City James Diossa Mayor of the City of Betsy Hodges Edwin Lee Central Falls Mayor of Minneapolis Mayor of the City of San Francisco Rahm Emanuel Ras Baraka Mayor of Chicago Mayor of the City of Karen Majewski Newark Mayor of Hamtramck Steven Benjamín Mayor of the City of Jean Quan Nelda Martinez Columbia Mayor of the City of Mayor of Corpus Christi Oakland

Gary R. McCarthy Francis G. Slay Mike Spano Mayor of the City of Mayor of the City of St. Mayor of the City of Schenectady Louis Yonkers

Edward B. Murray Greg Stanton Dayne Walling Mayor of the City of Mayor of Phoenix Mayor of Flint Seattle Marilyn Strickland Mayor of Tacoma

State Attorneys General

Robert W. Ferguson Eric T. Schneiderman Washington Attorney General New York Attorney General

Kamala D. Harris Thomas J. Miller California Attorney General Iowa Attorney General

George Jepsen Ellen F. Rosenblum Connecticut Attorney General Oregon Attorney General

Russell A. Suzuki Brian E. Frosh Hawai‘i Attorney General Maryland Attorney General

Hector H. Balderas William H. Sorrell New Mexico Attorney General Vermont Attorney General

Lisa Madigan Martha Coakley Illinois Attorney General Massachusetts Attorney General

Karl A. Racine District of Columbia Attorney General