Texas and the Biden administraton are battling in court over a controversial bill that empowers police in the state to arrest illegal immigrants.
Just as illegal immigrants rushed the southern border in El Paso, Texas, the Biden administration is locked in a months-long legal battle with Gov. Greg Abbott over a controversial anti-illegal immigration law. What is S.B. 4? Senate Bill 4 was passed by the Texas legislature and signed by Gov. Greg Abbott in December. The law allows police to arrest those in the country illegally by making it a state crime for someone to enter or re-enter the country illegally.
Why was it controversial? The move was immediately targeted in a lawsuit by the Biden administration in January. The administration said the law encroached upon federal immigration enforcement. ' efforts, through SB 4, intrude on the federal government’s exclusive authority to regulate the entry and removal of noncitizens, frustrate the United States’ immigration operations and proceedings, and interfere with U.S. foreign relations,' the Department of Justice said in its January lawsuit.
The president of the United States has a constitutional duty to enforce federal laws protecting states, including laws already on the books that mandate the detention of illegal immigrants,' Abbott said in February. 'Texas has the right to defend itself because of President Biden's ongoing failure to fulfill his duty to protect our state from the invasion at our southern border.
When it does, there is a good chance one of the two sides will request that the Supreme Court intervene again. Justice Amy Coney Barrett had suggested such a move was likely in her concurring opinion Tuesday. 'Before this Court intervenes on the emergency docket, the Fifth Circuit should be the first mover,' Barrett wrote. 'Merits briefing on Texas’s challenge to the District Court’s injunction of S. B. 4 is currently underway.
Texas says it still has the ability to stop and arrest illegal border crossers, even with the law on ice. That was on display in a shocking moment Thursday when over 100 migrants burst through Texas National Guardsmen blocking their entry further into the U.S. 'Even without S.B. 4, Texas has the legal authority to arrest people coming across the razor wire barriers on our border, and we will continue to use our arrest authority and arrest people coming across the border illegally,' Gov.
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