Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) said he assumed that because of further litigation, “this may be unresolved for some time.”
“The more important lesson,” he added, “is the Obama administration needs to make immigration reform and border security a priority because this is what happens when states are basically left to their own devices to try to protect their own people.”
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) called U.S. District Court Judge Susan Bolton’s ruling a “sort of timeout” in the immigration debate. “It stops the law from spreading because any state will have to slow down and think about this. It doesn’t solve the problem. It gives us time to re-engage with each other.”
“I would like to use this judicial timeout to find some constructive path forward,” said Graham. Obama should “use this time wisely,” work with Congress and hammer out a solution.
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