Jim Hood on Immigration

Stay out of DACA fights; it's a federal issue

The state AGs say the decision violates the due process rights of people participating in the program, which allows immigrants whose parents brought them to the US without authorization to remain in the country.

Attorney General Jim Hood said, "Immigration's really a federal issue and normally I don't get involved unless it affects a Mississippi law," Hood told reporters.

In 2012, Hood also declined to participate in lawsuit brought by immigration agents against the Obama Administration for ending the practice of deporting undocumented young people. Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant later joined that lawsuit on his own.

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