Federal appeals court to allow controversial Texas immigration law to take effect, if SCOTUS doesn't intervene
Source: CNN Politics
Published 6:49 PM EST, Sun March 3, 2024
CNN A federal appeals court granted a temporary stay of a lower courts decision to block the enforcement of a controversial Texas immigration law, paving the way for it to go into effect this week if the Supreme Court doesnt intervene. Last week, a federal judge in Austin, Texas, blocked the state government from implementing Senate Bill 4, which would allow state law enforcement authorities to arrest and detain people they suspect of entering the country illegally.
Judge David Alan Ezra wrote in his Thursday decision to halt the law that If allowed to proceed, SB 4 could open the door to each state passing its own version of immigration laws. Texas appealed the ruling, with Republican Gov. Greg Abbott saying, We will not back down in our fight to protect our state and our nation from President Bidens border crisis.
Over the weekend, the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals granted a stay of Ezras decision but put its ruling on hold for seven days, allowing time for the Biden administration to go to the Supreme Court.
The law remains blocked only until March 9 unless the Supreme Court keeps it on hold. It was originally set to go into effect March 5. The law, signed into law by Abbott in December, immediately raised concerns among immigration advocates of increased racial profiling as well as detentions and attempted deportations by state authorities in Texas, where Latinos represent 40% of the population.
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(13,608 posts)slightlv
(2,828 posts)burning the Constitution? Immigration is explicitly Federal. We have to get a handle on these states going off and doing their own thing, they're populations and the country be damned. Somehow, someone with judicial or fed law enforcement has got to call them on this crap. If not... they might as well secede; they've done it all but in name now! This really ticks me off. 50 states with 50 different laws on 50 different topics. THAT'S why the Federal Gov was formed... to keep us from nightmares like this.
riversedge
(70,270 posts)AnrothElf
(584 posts)Cite me for contempt of that court, because that's all I have for it.
angrychair
(8,732 posts)That this law will, essentially, allow Texas police to arrest anyone they want under the premise they "suspect" they are illegal immigrants?
Isn't this literally the "papers please" law that was ruled unconstitutional in Arizona?
like playing wack-a-mole with them.
onenote
(42,737 posts)Texas has until March 11 to respond.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/030424zr_jifl.pdf