RALEIGH, (SGRToday.com) - Gov. Pat McCrory has joined the Texas Attorney General and other governors and attorneys general in a lawsuit that challenges President Barack Obama’s expansion of presidential power by unilaterally changing immigration law through executive action.

The suit relates to the president's November action regarding illegal immigrants. The president bypassed Congress and legalized the presence of approximately five million immigrants who entered the United States illegally. This is approximately 40 percent of the estimated undocumented immigrant population in the United States.  
 
“The president has exceeded the balance of power provisions clearly laid out in the U.S. Constitution and his unilateral expansion of power must be challenged,” said Gov. McCrory in announcing his decision. “In North Carolina, the 10th most populous state, the president’s actions are likely to put even more financial strain on our state's government services.  It’s disappointing that the president has shown little regard for states which must shoulder the costs of his actions.”   
 
The legal challenge asserts the president violated the Take Care Clause (Article II, Section 3, Clause 5) of the U.S. Constitution which states the president must take care that the laws passed by Congress are faithfully executed.  The lawsuit maintains President Obama rewrote immigration law under the guise of executive discretion. The lawsuit also notes that the Constitution (Article I, Section 8, Clause 4) gives Congress - not the President - the power to establish a uniform Rule of Naturalization.