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⚡ U.S. House Speaker Johnson dismisses the Senate's supplemental foreign aid bill.
Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson:
"House Republicans were crystal clear from the very beginning of discussions that any so-called national security supplemental legislation must recognize that national security begins at OUR OWN BORDER. The House acted ten months ago to help enact transformative policy change by passing the Secure Our Border Act, and since then, including today, the Senate has failed to meet the moment.
The Senate did the right thing last week by rejecting the Ukraine-Taiwan-Gaza-Israel-Immigration legislation due to its insufficient border provisions, and it should have gone back to the drawing board to amend the current bill to include real border security provisions that would actually help end the ongoing catastrophe. Instead, the Senate's foreign aid bill is silent on the most pressing issue facing our country.
The mandate of national security supplemental legislation was to secure America's own border before sending additional foreign aid around the world. It is what the American people demand and deserve. Now, in the absence of having received any single border policy change from Senate, the House will have to continue to work its own will on these important matters. America deserves better than the Senate's status quo"
⚡ U.S. House Speaker Johnson dismisses the Senate's supplemental foreign aid bill.
Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson:
"House Republicans were crystal clear from the very beginning of discussions that any so-called national security supplemental legislation must recognize that national security begins at OUR OWN BORDER. The House acted ten months ago to help enact transformative policy change by passing the Secure Our Border Act, and since then, including today, the Senate has failed to meet the moment.
The Senate did the right thing last week by rejecting the Ukraine-Taiwan-Gaza-Israel-Immigration legislation due to its insufficient border provisions, and it should have gone back to the drawing board to amend the current bill to include real border security provisions that would actually help end the ongoing catastrophe. Instead, the Senate's foreign aid bill is silent on the most pressing issue facing our country.
The mandate of national security supplemental legislation was to secure America's own border before sending additional foreign aid around the world. It is what the American people demand and deserve. Now, in the absence of having received any single border policy change from Senate, the House will have to continue to work its own will on these important matters. America deserves better than the Senate's status quo"
Migrant crossings fall sharply along Texas border, shifting to Arizona and California
By Camilo Montoya-GalvezFebruary 8, 2024 / 4:55 PM EST
Eagle Pass, Texas — In recent weeks, the flow of migrants crossing into the U.S. illegally has largely shifted away from Texas, concentrating instead in Arizona and California, where immigration officials are now recording roughly 60% of all unlawful border crossings, according to internal federal government figures obtained by CBS News.
Overall illegal crossings along the U.S.-Mexico border have dropped sharply since soaring to a record high in December. In January, Border Patrol recorded 125,000 migrant apprehensions in between ports of entry along the southern border, compared to nearly 250,000 in December, preliminary federal data show. But the geographic trends of those migration flows have also changed dramatically.
Over the past weeks, the Tucson sector in Arizona and the San Diego sector in California have been the busiest Border Patrol regions for migrant crossings. In both sectors, more than 1,000 migrants have been entering the U.S. illegally each day in remote desert areas like Lukeville, Arizona, and Jacumba Hot Springs, California, in recent weeks, taking advantage of gaps in the border wall or holes cut by smugglers.
Meanwhile, along the 1,254-mile Texas border, the largest of any state neighboring Mexico, crossings by migrants have plunged. The drop has been especially pronounced in the Del Rio sector, which was the second-busiest Border Patrol region in December.
Border Patrol averaged 1,816 daily migrant apprehensions in the Tucson sector and 1,213 in the San Diego sector during the week ending on Feb. 4, the internal government data show. Collectively, the two sectors accounted for 59% of the 5,128 daily apprehension average that week. Arizona and California each have one additional Border Patrol sector, but migrant arrivals in those areas are much lower.
In the seven-day time period ending on Feb. 4, Border Patrol averaged 716 and 536 migrant apprehensions each day in Texas' El Paso and Rio Grande Valley sectors, respectively. The Del Rio sector, meanwhile, has been recording a few hundred apprehensions, and as few as 200, each day — compared to the 2,300 daily migrant crossings there in December.
Crossings slow in Eagle Pass
An aerial view shows migrants walking next to razor wire after crossing the Rio Grande to seek asylum at sunset in Eagle Pass, Texas, on Feb. 4, 2024. Lokman Vural Elibol/Anadolu via Getty ImagesThe shifting migration patterns are clearly visible in Eagle Pass, a small Texas border city in the Del Rio sector that was one of the epicenters of the record influx in migrant crossings in December. At one point that month, Border Patrol held as many as 6,000 migrants in an outdoor staging area in a public park in Eagle Pass next to the Rio Grande, which thousands of migrants were crossing each day to enter the U.S.
But daily illegal crossings have slowed to a trickle in this area, which has been sealed off to the public and federal agents by Texas National Guard soldiers deployed by Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican who has repeatedly clashed with President Biden over U.S. immigration policy.
Using layers of razor and concertina wire, shipping containers and other barriers, the Texas National Guard has fortified this 2.5-mile section of the southern border, making it exceedingly difficult for migrants to get past the riverbank of the Rio Grande. It has also sealed off the former Border Patrol staging area with concertina wire, blockingfederal agents from processing migrants there.
On Sunday, Abbott hosted more than a dozen Republican governors in Shelby Park and credited the marked decrease in migrant crossings near Eagle Pass to his state's actions, saying average daily crossings in that area had decreased from several thousand to just three in recent days.
"The cartels have rerouted their routes to cross the border because Texas is the only state that's putting up any resistance," Abbott said. "Despite the fact that Texas represents more than 60% of the land miles of the border, the overwhelming majority now of people crossing the border are crossing in Arizona and California, two states that are putting up no resistance to illegal immigration."
It's difficult to ascertain why exactly migration flows shift, since they are driven by many factors beyond actions in the U.S., including seasonal trends, decisions by the criminal actors in Mexico who smuggle migrants and the Mexican government's efforts, or lack thereof, to curb that illicit industry.
Biden administration officials, for example, have attributed the marked drop in illegal crossings in recent weeks to actions by Mexican authorities to slow the flow of U.S.-bound migrants since a meeting in Mexico City in late December between top officials from both countries. They also point to historical patterns in which crossings drop after the holidays.
Valeria Wheeler, the director of Mission Border Hope, the only migrant shelter in Eagle Pass, said the number of migrants she received from Border Patrol started decreasing sharply around the start of 2024, before Texas took control of Shelby Park in the second week of January. In December, her shelter was receiving as many as 1,200 migrants each day. Now, she said Border Patrol is dropping off a couple dozen migrants daily.
"The Mexican government has made it very difficult for migrants to come to the border in this area," said Wheeler, who lives in Piedras Negras, the Mexican city adjacent to Eagle Pass.
This movie has been scripted and will be played out in 2025 when trump takes office and launch the largest deportation of illegals and undocumented this country has even seen!
2 US National Guard members and Border Patrol agent are killed in Texas helicopter crash
One soldier survived but remains in critical condition.
The UH-72 Lakota helicopter was part of the federal government's border security operations when it crashed along the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas on Friday
One soldier survived but remains in critical condition.
The UH-72 Lakota helicopter was part of the federal government's border security operations when it crashed along the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas on Friday
Supreme Court permits Texas police to arrest people who illegally cross the border as the SB 4 legal clash continues
1 hour ago
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed Texas to start enforcing Senate Bill 4, a new state law that allows Texas police to charge people with illegally entering the state from other countries. The federal government argued that the law is unconstitutional because enforcing immigration laws is a federal responsibility. Jason Garza for The Texas Tribunenone
The ruling allows Texas to start enforcing SB 4 while a lawsuit over its constitutionality remains pending before a federal appeals court.
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that a law allowing Texas police to arrest people suspected of illegally crossing the Texas-Mexico border can take effect while a legal battle over the new state law empowering local law enforcement plays out.
The decision comes a day after the high court had extended its temporary block of the law.
Justice Samuel Alito had issued the block as the high court considered an appeal from the Biden administration, which has argued Senate Bill 4 is unconstitutional because it interferes with federal immigration laws.
The legal case is far from over. The case remains pending before in the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals. Eventually it has to be resolved in a federal court in Austin, where the lawsuits were originally filed.
In February, U.S. District Judge David Ezra in Austin blocked SB 4, saying the law “threatens the fundamental notion that the United States must regulate immigration with one voice.” Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office immediately appealed the ruling to the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, which reversed Ezra’s ruling.
The Biden administration then appealed to the Supreme Court, which temporarily blocked the law until March 18 as it considered the federal government’s request to stop the law from going into effect.
SB 4 seeks to make illegally crossing the border a Class B misdemeanor, carrying a punishment of up to six months in jail. Repeat offenders could face a second-degree felony with a punishment of two to 20 years in prison.
The law also requires state judges to order migrants returned to Mexico if they are convicted; local law enforcement would be responsible for transporting migrants to the border. A judge could drop the charges if a migrant agrees to return to Mexico voluntarily.
The high court’s move comes during a presidential election year in which immigration has become a key issue for voters who in November will decide a rematch of the 2016 election between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump. As the court battles play out, historically high numbers of people are arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border this year, many of them seeking asylum.
Earlier this year, a bipartisan immigration bill failed in the U.S. Senate after Trump told Republicans not to vote for it, in part so that he could campaign on the issue. The bill proposed overhauling the nation's asylum system to provide quicker decisions on asylum requests and allow presidents to order immediate deportation of migrants at the border when immigration agents get overwhelmed.
Biden has created some narrow paths for migrants to enter the U.S. legally with policies that seek to deter migrants from entering the country illegally. He also supported the bipartisan legislation that unraveled this year. Republicans have accused him of incentivizing illegal immigration by not taking harder stances on border security.
Trump has said that immigration enforcement will be among his priorities if he wins back the presidency in November. During his presidency, his administration rolled out a series of policies aimed to prevent people from seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border and deter migrants from crossing the border illegally. He was heavily criticized for a “zero tolerance” policy that required Border Patrol agents to separate children from their parents and using racist language to describe migrants.
Gov. Greg Abbott and other Texas Republicans also have made border security and immigration a priority in recent years. Abbott signed SB 4 in December, marking Texas’ latest attempt to try to deter people from crossing the Rio Grande.
In December, the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Texas and the Texas Civil Rights Project sued Texas on behalf of El Paso County and two immigrant rights organizations — El Paso-based Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center and Austin-based American Gateways — over the new state law.
The following month, the U.S. Department of Justice filed its lawsuit against Texas. The lawsuits have since been combined. Last week, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund and the National Immigration Law Center also filed a lawsuit on behalf of La Union del Pueblo Entero, an advocacy group in the Rio Grande Valley founded by farmer rights activists César Chávez and Dolores Huerta.
So evil.
They have a RIGHT TO ASYLUM!
They have a RIGHT TO ASYLUM!
Bro you been on fiya lately,
Hell this might’ve always been your temperature. I never really paid attention to these politically friendly threads….
Supreme Court permits Texas police to arrest people who illegally cross the border as the SB 4 legal clash continues
1 hour ago
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed Texas to start enforcing Senate Bill 4, a new state law that allows Texas police to charge people with illegally entering the state from other countries. The federal government argued that the law is unconstitutional because enforcing immigration laws is a federal responsibility. Jason Garza for The Texas Tribunenone
The ruling allows Texas to start enforcing SB 4 while a lawsuit over its constitutionality remains pending before a federal appeals court.
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that a law allowing Texas police to arrest people suspected of illegally crossing the Texas-Mexico border can take effect while a legal battle over the new state law empowering local law enforcement plays out.
The decision comes a day after the high court had extended its temporary block of the law.
Justice Samuel Alito had issued the block as the high court considered an appeal from the Biden administration, which has argued Senate Bill 4 is unconstitutional because it interferes with federal immigration laws.
The legal case is far from over. The case remains pending before in the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals. Eventually it has to be resolved in a federal court in Austin, where the lawsuits were originally filed.
In February, U.S. District Judge David Ezra in Austin blocked SB 4, saying the law “threatens the fundamental notion that the United States must regulate immigration with one voice.” Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office immediately appealed the ruling to the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, which reversed Ezra’s ruling.
The Biden administration then appealed to the Supreme Court, which temporarily blocked the law until March 18 as it considered the federal government’s request to stop the law from going into effect.
SB 4 seeks to make illegally crossing the border a Class B misdemeanor, carrying a punishment of up to six months in jail. Repeat offenders could face a second-degree felony with a punishment of two to 20 years in prison.
The law also requires state judges to order migrants returned to Mexico if they are convicted; local law enforcement would be responsible for transporting migrants to the border. A judge could drop the charges if a migrant agrees to return to Mexico voluntarily.
The high court’s move comes during a presidential election year in which immigration has become a key issue for voters who in November will decide a rematch of the 2016 election between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump. As the court battles play out, historically high numbers of people are arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border this year, many of them seeking asylum.
Earlier this year, a bipartisan immigration bill failed in the U.S. Senate after Trump told Republicans not to vote for it, in part so that he could campaign on the issue. The bill proposed overhauling the nation's asylum system to provide quicker decisions on asylum requests and allow presidents to order immediate deportation of migrants at the border when immigration agents get overwhelmed.
Biden has created some narrow paths for migrants to enter the U.S. legally with policies that seek to deter migrants from entering the country illegally. He also supported the bipartisan legislation that unraveled this year. Republicans have accused him of incentivizing illegal immigration by not taking harder stances on border security.
Trump has said that immigration enforcement will be among his priorities if he wins back the presidency in November. During his presidency, his administration rolled out a series of policies aimed to prevent people from seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border and deter migrants from crossing the border illegally. He was heavily criticized for a “zero tolerance” policy that required Border Patrol agents to separate children from their parents and using racist language to describe migrants.
Gov. Greg Abbott and other Texas Republicans also have made border security and immigration a priority in recent years. Abbott signed SB 4 in December, marking Texas’ latest attempt to try to deter people from crossing the Rio Grande.
In December, the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Texas and the Texas Civil Rights Project sued Texas on behalf of El Paso County and two immigrant rights organizations — El Paso-based Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center and Austin-based American Gateways — over the new state law.
The following month, the U.S. Department of Justice filed its lawsuit against Texas. The lawsuits have since been combined. Last week, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund and the National Immigration Law Center also filed a lawsuit on behalf of La Union del Pueblo Entero, an advocacy group in the Rio Grande Valley founded by farmer rights activists César Chávez and Dolores Huerta.
About time. The shit is getting absurd in NYC/CHI and the MSM is doing a massive cover up.
Bro you think this is a fucking joke? Don't you know the PRESIDENTS this will cause?!
Bro you been on fiya lately,
Hell this might’ve always been your temperature. I never really paid attention to these politically friendly threads….
They'll pick on us Black Americans next!
I think obama got the record btw.
Bravo, Professor X is doing a good job. And they have a right to a bullet to the head not asylum. You go anywhere else in the world talking that asylum shit and see what happens. Next up bring on Trump with the mass deportation and an end to illegals getting free shit. Hopefully an end to birthright citizenship that shit was for Black people freed after slavery. We been legally free since 1865 and don't need that shit anymore end it now.Supreme Court permits Texas police to arrest people who illegally cross the border as the SB 4 legal clash continues
1 hour ago
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed Texas to start enforcing Senate Bill 4, a new state law that allows Texas police to charge people with illegally entering the state from other countries. The federal government argued that the law is unconstitutional because enforcing immigration laws is a federal responsibility. Jason Garza for The Texas Tribunenone
The ruling allows Texas to start enforcing SB 4 while a lawsuit over its constitutionality remains pending before a federal appeals court.
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that a law allowing Texas police to arrest people suspected of illegally crossing the Texas-Mexico border can take effect while a legal battle over the new state law empowering local law enforcement plays out.
The decision comes a day after the high court had extended its temporary block of the law.
Justice Samuel Alito had issued the block as the high court considered an appeal from the Biden administration, which has argued Senate Bill 4 is unconstitutional because it interferes with federal immigration laws.
The legal case is far from over. The case remains pending before in the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals. Eventually it has to be resolved in a federal court in Austin, where the lawsuits were originally filed.
In February, U.S. District Judge David Ezra in Austin blocked SB 4, saying the law “threatens the fundamental notion that the United States must regulate immigration with one voice.” Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office immediately appealed the ruling to the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, which reversed Ezra’s ruling.
The Biden administration then appealed to the Supreme Court, which temporarily blocked the law until March 18 as it considered the federal government’s request to stop the law from going into effect.
SB 4 seeks to make illegally crossing the border a Class B misdemeanor, carrying a punishment of up to six months in jail. Repeat offenders could face a second-degree felony with a punishment of two to 20 years in prison.
The law also requires state judges to order migrants returned to Mexico if they are convicted; local law enforcement would be responsible for transporting migrants to the border. A judge could drop the charges if a migrant agrees to return to Mexico voluntarily.
The high court’s move comes during a presidential election year in which immigration has become a key issue for voters who in November will decide a rematch of the 2016 election between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump. As the court battles play out, historically high numbers of people are arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border this year, many of them seeking asylum.
Earlier this year, a bipartisan immigration bill failed in the U.S. Senate after Trump told Republicans not to vote for it, in part so that he could campaign on the issue. The bill proposed overhauling the nation's asylum system to provide quicker decisions on asylum requests and allow presidents to order immediate deportation of migrants at the border when immigration agents get overwhelmed.
Biden has created some narrow paths for migrants to enter the U.S. legally with policies that seek to deter migrants from entering the country illegally. He also supported the bipartisan legislation that unraveled this year. Republicans have accused him of incentivizing illegal immigration by not taking harder stances on border security.
Trump has said that immigration enforcement will be among his priorities if he wins back the presidency in November. During his presidency, his administration rolled out a series of policies aimed to prevent people from seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border and deter migrants from crossing the border illegally. He was heavily criticized for a “zero tolerance” policy that required Border Patrol agents to separate children from their parents and using racist language to describe migrants.
Gov. Greg Abbott and other Texas Republicans also have made border security and immigration a priority in recent years. Abbott signed SB 4 in December, marking Texas’ latest attempt to try to deter people from crossing the Rio Grande.
In December, the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Texas and the Texas Civil Rights Project sued Texas on behalf of El Paso County and two immigrant rights organizations — El Paso-based Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center and Austin-based American Gateways — over the new state law.
The following month, the U.S. Department of Justice filed its lawsuit against Texas. The lawsuits have since been combined. Last week, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund and the National Immigration Law Center also filed a lawsuit on behalf of La Union del Pueblo Entero, an advocacy group in the Rio Grande Valley founded by farmer rights activists César Chávez and Dolores Huerta.
Appeals Court Puts Texas Immigration Law on Hold Again
The law went temporarily into effect after a Supreme Court ruling. But hours later, an appeals court unexpectedly issued an order effectively blocking the law’s implementation.
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The State of Texas late Tuesday was once again prevented from enforcing a strict new immigration law that gives local police agencies the power to arrest migrants who cross the border without authorization.
The order, issued by a Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals panel before midnight, capped a day of legal whiplash and came just hours after the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the law to temporarily go into effect.
March 20, 2024, 12:49 a.m. ETMarch 20, 2024
Here is the brief, late-night federal appeals court order that effectively again blocked the Texas law hours after the U.S. Supreme Court had cleared the way for it to take effect.
Richi Silva, 32, a native of Venezuela, and his wife, Karlina Pagola, with their children, Richelys, Abraham and Reiker, in Brownsville, Texas, on Tuesday.Verónica G. Cárdenas for The New York Times
Migrants newly arrived in Texas were already expressing worry on Tuesday over whether they could face arrest by state authorities under the state’s new immigration law.
In the border city of Brownsville, a group of them gathered through the afternoon and evening near the international bridge that connects the city to Mexico. Most had managed to score an appointment with Customs and Border Protection officials through an app, CBP One, meaning they had entered the country legally and were making a plea for asylum through the official channels.
Read the Federal Appeals Court Order
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued a new order effectively again blocking a Texas law that would make it a crime to cross into the state from Mexico without authorization.
March 19, 2024, 9:13 p.m. ETMarch 19, 2024
Reyes Mata III
Reporting from El Paso
Gate 36 of the border wall, typically one of the spots in El Paso where high numbers of migrants cross, is quiet tonight. A United States Customs and Border Protection agent I spoke with here described his shift so far as “pretty peaceful.”
March 19, 2024, 9:03 p.m. ETMarch 19, 2024
Reyes Mata III
Reporting from El Paso
About 50 migrants, most single men and boys from Venezuela, were gathered on a sidewalk outside a church in El Paso on Tuesday. One of them, Franklin Arguita, 42, said he worried that the new Texas law would make it harder to bring his family to the United States. “I am a bit afraid that they can arrest you if you don’t have your papers all set. All we want to do is work, to help our families,” he said
Asylum seekers waited along a border fence to be processed in Sasabe, Arizona, in February.Rebecca Noble for The New York Times
The Supreme Court’s decision on Tuesday allowing Texas to arrest and deport migrants resonated deeply in Arizona, which passed its own divisive crackdown against illegal immigration more than a decade ago.
Arizona’s effort, which became known as the “show me your papers” law, set off a torrent of fear and anger after it passed in 2010 and jolted the state’s politics in ways that are still reverberating — offering a lesson of what could lie ahead for Texas.
Mexican nationals walked across the Gateway International Bridge into Mexico after being deported by U.S. immigration authorities in 2021.John Moore/Getty Images
Mexico will not accept deportations made by Texas “under any circumstances,” the country’s foreign ministry said on Tuesday in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to allow Texas to arrest migrants who cross into the state without authorization.
The ministry condemned the state law, known as Senate Bill 4, saying it would separate families, violate the human rights of migrants and generate “hostile environments” for the more than 10 million people of Mexican origin living in Texas.
Gov. Kim Reynolds of Iowa said she plans to sign a bill that would make it a state crime to enter Iowa after being deported or denied entry into the United States.Jordan Gale for The New York Times
Iowa lawmakers passed a bill on Tuesday that would make it a crime to enter the state after being deported or denied entry into the United States. The passage puts the Midwestern state on track to join Texas in enforcing immigration outside the federal system.
The Iowa bill, which passed on the same day that the Supreme Court had briefly allowed Texas to enforce a new law empowering police officers to arrest unauthorized migrants, now goes to the desk of Gov. Kim Reynolds, a Republican, who said she planned to sign it.
Migrants waited to be led to buses by Border Patrol agents in December.Paul Ratje for The New York Times
The Supreme Court decision that briefly allowed a Texas immigration law, S.B. 4, go into effect on Tuesday was distinctly reminiscent of a similar ruling in 2021, one that let a Texas abortion law, S.B. 8, come into force.
That law, which effectively imposed a six-week ban on abortions in the state months before the Supreme Court eliminated the right to abortion in 2022, was devised to avoid review in federal court. The “administrative stay” entered by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, which overrode a trial judge’s decision blocking the law, similarly served to avoid immediate review in the Supreme Court.
Migrants after being intercepted by authorities upon crossing into the U.S. from Mexico in Eagle Pass, Texas, earlier this year.Kenny Holston/The New York Times
A new state law that would allow Texas to arrest migrants suspected of crossing the border without authorization has raised concerns from critics that those seeking protection from persecution in their homelands could be deprived of their right to apply for asylum.
The law, which a federal appeals court put on hold in a late-night ruling on Tuesday, would make it a state crime to cross illegally into Texas from Mexico.
March 19, 2024, 7:48 p.m. ETMarch 19, 2024
J. David Goodman
Reporting from Eagle Pass, Texas
The speaker of the Texas House, Dade Phelan, facing a tough reelection fight in his district, lashed out at Texas police agencies and officials who said that they would not prioritize arrests under the new law. “Any local law enforcement agency that refuses to enforce Senate Bill 4 is abandoning their sworn duty,” Phelan said.
Meridith Kohut for The New York Times
March 19, 2024, 7:02 p.m. ETMarch 19, 2024
The Fifth Circuit, the appeals court that covers Texas and had been considering the immigration law, has scheduled arguments for 10 a.m. Central tomorrow on whether a trial judge’s injunction blocking the measure should be allowed to take effect throughout the federal government's appeal. That would mean Texas could not enforce the law.
March 19, 2024, 6:26 p.m. ETMarch 19, 2024
Emiliano Rodríguez Mega
Reporting from Mexico City
Mexico’s top diplomat for North America, Roberto Velasco Álvarez, said on social media that his country would not accept deportations made by the state of Texas, and that immigration policy was a matter for negotiation between federal governments.
March 19, 2024, 6:15 p.m. ETMarch 19, 2024
Mary Beth Gahan
Reporting from Dallas
The police chief in Dallas, the state’s third-largest city, said his department would not begin to enforce the law without “more clarification,” adding that it would need to update procedures and provide additional training to officers before making any changes. Chief Eddie Garcia added that the department would continue to follow a state law that prohibits racial profiling.
March 19, 2024, 6:02 p.m. ETMarch 19, 2024
J. David Goodman
Reporting from Eagle Pass, Texas
I was at the border in Eagle Pass, Texas, when the Supreme Court decision came down this afternoon. None of the National Guard troopers, who are stationed behind rows of concertina wire and metal fencing, appeared immediately aware of the altered legal landscape.
Cheney Orr for The New York Times
March 19, 2024, 6:03 p.m. ETMarch 19, 2024
J. David Goodman
Reporting from Eagle Pass, Texas
I did not see any migrants crossing, either. There has been a sharp decline in migrant arrivals in this area since January.
March 19, 2024, 5:51 p.m. ETMarch 19, 2024
Representative Joaquin Castro, a Democrat, said in a statement that the Supreme Court had undermined its credibility by allowing the law to take effect and “has opted to allow for a trial run of a constitutional crisis.” He called the law “an alarming state overreach that will likely lead to massive civil rights violations across our state.”
Jordan Vonderhaar for The New York Times
March 19, 2024, 5:34 p.m. ETMarch 19, 2024
Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas, a Republican, briefly responded to the court ruling on social media, calling it “clearly a positive development.” U.S. Senate Republicans responded more forcefully, declaring the decision “a big win for those who believe in the rule of law and secure borders.”
Erin Schaff/The New York Times
March 19, 2024, 5:22 p.m. ETMarch 19, 2024
Mary Beth Gahan
Reporting from Dallas
The Worker’s Defense Action Fund, a Texas nonprofit group that supports immigrant workers, condemned the ruling. “SB4 is the most dangerous, hateful and anti-immigrant law the United States has ever seen,” the group's exective director, Lizeth Chacon, said in a statement, adding, “Migrants and the Latin community have historically been used as scapegoats in America’s political chess game, and this is hurting our communities.”
March 19, 2024, 5:21 p.m. ETMarch 19, 2024
Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary, said in a statement that “we fundamentally disagree” with the Supreme Court order. The state law “will not only make communities in Texas less safe, it will also burden law enforcement, and sow chaos and confusion at our southern border,” she said.
Migrants crawling through razor wire into El Paso, Texas, after crossing the Rio Grande from Mexico last month.John Moore/Getty Images
The Supreme Court temporarily sided with Texas on Tuesday in its increasingly bitter fight with the Biden administration over immigration policy, allowing an expansive state law to go into effect that makes it a crime for migrants to enter Texas without authorization.
As is typical when the court acts on emergency applications, its order gave no reasons. But Justice Amy Coney Barrett, joined by Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, filed a concurring opinion that seemed to express the majority’s bottom line.
U.S. Border Patrol agents encountering migrants in Eagle Pass, Texas.Michael Gonzalez/Getty Images
A sweeping new Texas law that would empower state and local police officers to arrest migrants who cross into the state from Mexico without authorization faces an uncertain future.
On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court briefly cleared the way for implementation of the law, which the Biden administration has challenged as an unconstitutional infringement on the federal government’s power to set and enforce immigration law.
Hell they have an app to assist with the process
Looking like zombie movie scene out thur
TommyRobinsonOfficial on Gab: 'Current scenes at the US border.'
TommyRobinsonOfficial on Gab: 'Current scenes at the US border.'