Texas Law On Cops Arresting Migrants Blocked Again

Reuters reports:

Texas law enforcement can no longer arrest people suspected of illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border – again – just hours after the country’s top court said that for now, they could. The legal whiplash came from an appeals court, who halted the enforcement of the Republican-backed state law ahead of oral arguments on the issue scheduled for Wednesday morning.

Earlier on Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court had cleared the way for it to go into effect before the appeals court decides on its legality, ruling 6-3 along the justices’ ideological lines. The judicial back and forth began last December shortly after Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed the contentious measure to criminalize unauthorized border-crossings into law.

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A Republican-backed Texas law that will allow state law enforcement authorities to arrest people suspected of illegally crossing the US-Mexico border blocked again by an appeals court, hours after the Supreme Court cleared the way for it to go into effect https://t.co/iTuJZc8jIu

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