Passed by the Texas legislature last year, SB4 criminalizes unauthorized migration at the state level, making the act of entering the U.S. outside of a port of entry — already a federal offense — into a state crime. It also creates a state felony charge for illegal reentry.24 mins ago:
Supreme Court lets Texas detain and jail migrants under SB4 ...
What Texas’ SB4 immigration law does:
SB4 empowers Texas law enforcement officials, at the state and local levels, to stop, jail and prosecute migrants on illegal entry and reentry charges.
It also allows Texas judges to order migrants to return to Mexico as an alternative to continuing their prosecution, effectively creating a de facto state deportation system.
The Justice Department has said SB4 conflicts with federal law and the Constitution, noting that immigration enforcement, including arrests and deportations, have long been a federal responsibility. It has also argued the measure harms relations with the Mexican government, which has denounced SB4 as “anti-immigrant” and vowed to reject migrants returned by the state of Texas.
Abbott, who has positioned himself as the leading state critic of President Biden’s border policies, has portrayed SB4 as a necessary measure to discourage migrants from crossing the Rio Grande, arguing the federal government has not done enough to deter illegal immigration.
Over the past three years, Texas has mounted the most aggressive state effort yet to challenge the federal government’s power over immigration policy, busing tens of thousands of migrants to major, Democratic-led cities, assembling razor wire and buoys along stretches of the border to deter migrant crossings and filing multiple lawsuits against federal immigration programs.
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Supreme Court lets Texas detain and jail migrants under SB4 immigration law as legal battle continues
By Camilo Montoya-Galvez, Melissa Quinn
Updated on: March 19, 2024 / 3:00 PM EDT / CBS News
Bet his royal anis has a bird over that one.
flip this around..
How exactly was the Scotus going to STOP TX Leo from doing this?
We are rapidly getting to the point where nobody is really paying attention to the SCOTUS. (biden and student loans).
What is the SCOTUS mechanism to enforce these types of ruling against a state, or a president?