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The American Civil Liberties Union of Texas is suing the state over its new law that will allow police officers to arrest migrants who cross into the U.S. illegally.
The Biden administration and immigrant rights organizations who sued Texas to stop the law argue that S.B. 4 is unconstitutional because it interferes with federal immigration laws. Proponents of ...
Adriana Pinon, legal director of the ACLU's Texas chapter, said the law was one of the most extreme immigration enforcement measures taken by a U.S. state and would lead to racial profiling of ...
Immigration enforcement, generally, is a responsibility of the federal government, but the law signed by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott in December makes entering Texas illegally a state crime and ...
The law has already drawn a court challenge. It’s novel and vague enough that its exact fate is unpredictable, but the supremacy of federal immigration law is clear. Texas is once again meddling ...
By 2022, there were over 5.17 million foreign-born people in the State of Texas. [3] Immigration is a major topic in American politics and was a key issue for President Donald Trump. Despite a decrease in the rate of immigration, recent policies have attempted to limit immigration to Texas and restrict legal protections for migrants.
The Supreme Court on Monday indefinitely blocked Texas from enforcing an immigration law that would allow state officials to arrest and detain people they suspect of entering the country illegally.
The Supreme Court in 2012 struck down key parts of an Arizona law that would have allowed police to arrest people for federal immigration violations, often referred to by opponents as the “show ...