Thomas Lee was quoted in a Christian Science Monitor article about the U.S. Supreme Court decision in U.S. v. Texas.
With some 11 million undocumented immigrants in the US, Obama has pointed out that it would be logistically impossible to deport everyone currently here illegally. “The reality is, in an era of dwindling resources, Obama cannot investigate every single one of these cases,” says Thomas Lee, a professor of constitutional law at Fordham Law School and expert on the Supreme Court. “But he still commands enforcement on the ground, so I think not too much is going to change at all. Obama was just trying to give blanket guidance for every single case, at a 30,000-foot level. It was the principle of the thing.”