The issue focused on court rulings that granted civil rights to illegal immigrants. As federal courts started hearing legal challenges to Obama's illegal immigration law, civil rights lawyers say they were deeply concerned that federal courts would enforce federal laws that criminalized illegal immigration.

The civil rights lawyers had legal rights to sue for civil rights under federal law, but their clients were illegal immigrants.

The civil rights lawyers say they had received federal court rulings that showed that federal courts had legal rights to enforce federal laws that criminalized illegal