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Texas Senate Bill 4 is a new law that authorizes state and local police to detain and arrest people suspected of crossing into the U.S. in Texas from Mexico without legal authorization.
Texas Senate Bill 4 was first introduced into the Texas Legislature on November 15, 2016. [7] It passed the Texas Senate on February 8, 2017, by a vote of 20–10. [ 8 ] The bill then went to the Texas House of Representatives , where it passed on April 27, 2017, by a vote of 94–53, with one representative voting "present."
Rep. David Spiller, R-Jacksboro, who wrote the House's final version of SB 4, said the appeals court ruling is "great news for Texas" and that federal prosecutors have failed to make a successful ...
SB 4 was allowed to take effect for several hours last week, after the U.S. Supreme Court reversed its hold on the law, allowing an earlier ruling by a three-judge panel of the appeals court to ...
The Texas House of Representatives this week also approved Senate Bill 3, which allocates an additional $1.54 billion for Gov. Abbott's controversial Operation Lone Star and the construction of ...
El Paso County Sheriff's Office Cmdr. Ryan Urrutia speaks about the local law enforcement impact of SB 4, a Texas law allowing police to arrest undocumented immigrants, at a Wednesday morning news ...
Governor Abbott claimed that Texas had received more refugees than any other state, stating that 10% of all refugees in the United States had resettled in Texas over the past 10 years. [39] On January 15, 2020, a federal judge blocked the executive order, ruling that individual states do not have the power to deny refugees entry and that doing ...
Senate Bill 4, signed into law by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in December, immediately raised concerns among immigration advocates of increased racial profiling as well as detentions and attempted ...