If the state's new immigration law goes into effect, Texas Department of Public Safety troopers would arrest only migrants seen crossing the Rio Grande – and...
Clarifying how it would handle the measure, which is tied up in a court challenge, the agency says enforcement would be limited to the border area.
Last week, SB4 briefly went into effect after the U.S. Supreme Court gave the state permission to enforce the law and sent the matter back to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, which blocked SB4 about nine hours later. The law also did not carve out protections for minors or family units, although it prohibits arresting individuals at schools, places of worship and facilities that care for survivors of sexual violence.
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