Whatever you think about those laws and the way courts have interpreted them, citizen suits have been a highly effective tool to spur action from the EPA. It would be easy to apply the same concept in the realm of immigration. The Clean Water Act, for example, stipulates that “any citizen may commence a civil action on his own behalf” to enforce most of the law’s provisions. Similar language could be added to an immigration bill allowing anyone to bring suit to ensure its enforcement provisions were being implemented.
“I think it would be a very powerful tool that isn’t in the law now precisely because it would be so powerful,” says Mark Krikorian, president of the Center for Immigration Studies and a leading immigration hawk.
For the border fence, “it could work like critical habitat in the Endangered Species Act. If the fence was not built, any citizen would have the authority to bring suit to compel that it be constructed,” says Hewitt, who, besides running his radio show, continues to practice law in California, with environmental law as his specialty.
Citizen suits could work well to enforce other elements of Corker-Hoeven as well, such as the hiring of 20,000 Border Patrol agents and the purchasing of drones and helicopters.
As Hewitt puts it, “If we ever learn how to follow how the Left does things, then we become much more effective.”
Citizen Suits for Immigration Enforcement, read the whole article. It would be very entertaining to watch Dear Leader's Administration response to lawsuits.
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