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 1 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 2 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 3 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 4 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 5 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