Texas will not enforce their stupid fascist migrant law.

[Voltaire2]

Enforcement would bust the texas budget.

Texas has approximately 1.6 million undocumented migrants.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/11/16/what-we-know-about-unauthorized-immigrants-living-in-the-us/#:~:text=The%20six%20states%20with%20the,Florida%20(900%2C000

The estimated cost per inmate in Texas is $22,751
https://www.texascjc.org/2021-session-safely-adjust-parole-practices-reduce-massive-prison-budgets#:~:text=The%20yearly%20incarceration%20cost%20per%20person%20in%20Texas%20prisons%20is%20%2422%2C751.

I did the math: $36,401,600,000 to lock them up, per year.

2024 Texas budget: $144 billion
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/05/27/texas-legislature-budget/#:~:text=The%20General%20Appropriations%20Act%20for,grid%2C%20plus%20infrastructure%20for%20broadband

36 billion is approximately 25% of the Texas budget for this year.

Other than as a selective performance act, the state of Texas will not enforce their law. They will instead continue to bus 'em to own the libs.

[Beachnutt]

1. Watch this video

https://www.youtube.com/live/rFuMWJxbY_o?feature=shared

[hlthe2b]

2. Only a few comments on that video so far, but damn...

@lindaquinlan1471
@lindaquinlan1471
1 minute ago
Will look up your non-profit and investigate for corruption and gang ties.

[Beachnutt]

3. LULAC

League of United Latin American Citizens LULAC has several goals in mind relating to Mexican American civil rights that included desegregation in schools and the unfair conditions in migrant camps.

[hlthe2b]

5. I know what it is. Did you read the comment i posted? OMG

[Beachnutt]

9. I only see the investigate for gang ties

reply.

[hlthe2b]

10. Yes. You aren't appalled at that assumption?

about as MAGAT a response as I could imagine.

[Beachnutt]

11. Yes absolutely appalling

disgusting maga crap.

[LeftInTX]

16. I responded to that b_____, my comment was hidden. Likely by LULAC..LOL

[Beachnutt]

17. What did you say ?

Just curious..

[LeftInTX]

18. I will look you up and investigate you for corruption and gang ties.

Parroting what she said as it applies to her.

[Beachnutt]

19. Good reply,

[LeftInTX]

20. But it was hidden. I guess LULAC doesn't want trouble.

I unfriended someone on FB because he always tags me in these horrific anti-Trump posts. (They all contain the F word) It's too much and I have a few GOP friends. I'm also friends with Democratic local officials. I don't wanna look like a crazy loon or make us look like crazy loons. My sister is a professor in Qatar and I think she avoids my posts because of some of the stuff he's done.

[Voltaire2]

6. Yeah he makes pretty much the same point

I'm not trying to minimize the impact of this shitty fascist law, far from it, I'm just pointing out how the law, despite causing vast harm, cannot be effective as it would bankrupt the state if fully implemented.

[Celerity]

26. DU-displaying link

[Lovie777]

4. They will try to deport more to blue states............................

unless they are stopped.

[Voltaire2]

7. There is nothing stopping the forced transportation now.

[Freethinker65]

8. They will demand US taxpayers pay for it (like fixing their power grid)

[LeftInTX]

12. A few US citizens should resist, get deported and sue in federal court.

[Voltaire2]

14. The law comes with a six month prison sentence for a first offense.

20 years! for a repeat offense.

Texas can place you next to the border, they cannot put you across it (yet.) The law does allow judges to drop the charges if the victim agrees to return to Mexico.

[ripcord]

23. Actually SCOTUS is allowing the law to be enforced as written

And that includes deportations.

[Voltaire2]

24. It doesn't. It allows a voluntary return.

Deportation is involuntary.

[BootinUp]

13. But I think they will use it selectively.

It will be left up to the cops on the street and their Sargent/Captain whatever.

[Voltaire2]

15. Absolutely. It will be used to terrorize the hispanic population of Texas.

[former9thward]

21. If you do the same math you will find all states would go bankrupt if they enforced all laws completely.

That is why law enforcement is given discretion on who they arrest. And prosecutors are given discretion on what charges they bring and they are given the ability to drop charges, modify them or plea bargain them. No state has the resources to enforce all laws completely.

[Voltaire2]

25. Sure. The point is that it would be ruinous

if they tried to enforce it on a significant portion of the undocumented population.

It is just another fascist performance in their theater of cruelty.

[SarahD]

22. Selectively.

They knew they couldn't round up even a fraction of the immigrants who could be arrested. This is just something they can use when they feel like it. Same thing as the old vagrancy laws.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

27. A federal appeals court put a controversial Texas immigration law on hold.

Link to tweet

[LetMyPeopleVote]

28. Appeals court blocks Texas immigration law shortly after Supreme Court action

The decision comes just hours after the Supreme Court said the measure, known as SB4, could go into effect while litigation continues.

Link to tweet

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/appeals-court-blocks-texas-immigration-law-supreme-court-action-rcna144193

A federal appeals court on Tuesday night ordered that a contentious new Texas immigration law be paused just hours after the Supreme Court said it could go into effect.

A three-judge panel of the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals split 2-1 in saying in a brief order that the measure, known as SB4, should be blocked. The same court is hearing arguments Wednesday morning on the issue.....

The appeals court appeared to be taking the hint from the Supreme Court, which in rejecting an emergency application filed by the Biden administration put the onus on the appeals court to act quickly.

"If a decision does not issue soon, the applicants may return to this court,” conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote in a separate opinion joined by fellow conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

[progressoid]

29. It's all performative theater.

I often read right wingers saying "Biden could do XYZ at the border right now without congress!!11!!"

Yeah, except for the money part. It is kind of hard to get things done without funding.