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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJudge blocks Texas law that gives police broad powers to arrest migrants who illegally enter US
Judge blocks Texas law that gives police broad powers to arrest migrants who illegally enter USORDER GRANTING PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) A federal judge on Thursday blocked a new Texas law that would give police broad powers to arrest migrants suspected of illegally entering the U.S., dealing a victory to the Biden administration with a broad rejection of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott's immigration enforcement effort.
U.S. District Judge David Ezra's preliminary injunction pausing a law that was set to take effect March 5 came as President Joe Biden and his likely Republican challenger in November, Donald Trump, were visiting Texas' southern border to discuss immigration.
The state attorney general's office immediately appealed the ruling, according to a statement Thursday.
The ruling rebuked Texas' immigration enforcement effort on multiple fronts, brushing off claims by Republicans about an ongoing invasion along the southern border due to record-high illegal crossings. Ezra also said the law violates the Constitution's supremacy clause, conflicts with federal immigration law, and could hamper U.S. foreign relations and treaty obligations.
It is the second time in six months that Ezra has stopped one of Abbotts border escalations, having also ruled against a floating barrier Texas erected in the Rio Grande.
Allowing Texas to permanently supersede federal directives due to a so-called invasion would amount to nullification of federal law and authority a notion that is antithetical to the Constitution and has been unequivocally rejected by federal courts since the Civil War, the judge wrote.
U.S. District Judge David Ezra's preliminary injunction pausing a law that was set to take effect March 5 came as President Joe Biden and his likely Republican challenger in November, Donald Trump, were visiting Texas' southern border to discuss immigration.
The state attorney general's office immediately appealed the ruling, according to a statement Thursday.
The ruling rebuked Texas' immigration enforcement effort on multiple fronts, brushing off claims by Republicans about an ongoing invasion along the southern border due to record-high illegal crossings. Ezra also said the law violates the Constitution's supremacy clause, conflicts with federal immigration law, and could hamper U.S. foreign relations and treaty obligations.
It is the second time in six months that Ezra has stopped one of Abbotts border escalations, having also ruled against a floating barrier Texas erected in the Rio Grande.
Allowing Texas to permanently supersede federal directives due to a so-called invasion would amount to nullification of federal law and authority a notion that is antithetical to the Constitution and has been unequivocally rejected by federal courts since the Civil War, the judge wrote.
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In It to Win It
Mar 1
OP
The Fascist 5th circuit will take care of that pesky ruling before the ink's dry.
Comfortably_Numb
Mar 1
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walkingman
(7,675 posts)1. Thank goodness. I can see major profiling issues from this. Texas has
about 40% hispanic population and this will not end well.
The Texas GOP are nothing but racist bullies.
Comfortably_Numb
(3,840 posts)2. The Fascist 5th circuit will take care of that pesky ruling before the ink's dry.
Legality is not their concern, its magatdom.
PortTack
(32,813 posts)3. I'm afraid you're right
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lostnfound
(16,193 posts)4. Another AP bullshit headline. Needs the word 'suspected' of illegally entering the US
The headline as written presumes or pretends that police wont be stopping citizens too.