The Supreme Court has allowed Texas to enforce one of the toughest immigration laws enacted by any US state in recent memory.
The measure allows police to arrest and prosecute those suspected of illegally crossing the US-Mexican border.
The Biden administration has challenged the law, calling it unconstitutional.
Crossing the US border illegally is already a federal crime, but violations are usually handled as civil cases by the immigration court system.
One reason the Texas law, SB4, is so controversial is because courts have previously ruled that only the federal government can enforce the country’s immigration laws, not individual US states.
The Supreme Court has not approved of SB4, they’ve ruled that it shouldn’t be prevented from being enacted while an actual ruling happens. This is a bad decision and awful but there is still some hope it will be rejected.
Well, would allowing SB4 to stand not Grant control of the federal border to individual states? Each border state could then set their own laws defining who gets to enter and leave?
Yea, including the lib’ruhl ones - it’s why I expect the Supreme Court might end up striking down the law.
Remember, American conservatives don’t like states rights - they want their bullshit laws nation wide. See their advocacy for national abortion bans after convincing the Supreme Court that abortion legality wasn’t a power the federal government could determine.
They would stack with Federal laws, but yes. I.e. you could be arrested by the Feds for breaking Federal law or separately the state for breaking state law.
Example consequences include the Feds granting someone asylum who nonetheless gets deported by the state and, well, Texas deporting people from blue states because they’ve decided they don’t like those people.
So if a state says Texans aren’t allowed could they be arrested and deported back to Texas?
Or to North Dakota, which might be a good deal more entertaining.