St. Louis Mayor Slay quoted in statement about Amicus Brief on immigration

CITIES AND COUNTIES FILE AMICUS BRIEF IN UNITED STATES V. TEXAS URGING U.S. SUPREME COURT TO PERMIT PRESIDENT OBAMA’S EXECUTIVE ACTION ON IMMIGRATION TO MOVE FORWARD
 
WASHINGTON – Cities for Action announced today that a broad coalition of cities and counties are filing a friend-of-the-court amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in United States v. Texas, urging the Court to overturn a lower court’s decision and allow President Obama’s executive action on immigration to move forward. The brief, signed by 118 cities and counties representing 35 states, argues that the nationwide injunction blocking implementation of the President’s executive action on immigration was erroneously entered and should be reversed because it places millions of families in our cities and counties at economic and personal risk.

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