Texas can enforce the law — imagine that…
According to a Fox News report, the Supreme Court will allow Texas to arrest illegal migrants who are caught crossing into Texas from Mexico — a significant win for Governor Greg Abbott.
Abbott shared the news on X, saying “BREAKING: In a 6-3 decision SCOTUS allows Texas to begin enforcing SB4 that allows the arrest of illegal immigrants. We still have to have hearings in the 5th circuit federal court of appeals. But this is clearly a positive development.”
BREAKING: In a 6-3 decision SCOTUS allows Texas to begin enforcing SB4 that allows the arrest of illegal immigrants.
We still have to have hearings in the 5th circuit federal court of appeals.
But this is clearly a positive development.
— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) March 19, 2024
“Texas has defeated the Biden Administration’s and ACLU’s emergency motions at the Supreme Court. Our immigration law, SB 4, is now in effect. As always, it’s my honor to defend Texas and its sovereignty, and to lead us to victory in court,” Texas AG Ken Paxton said on Tuesday.
From Fox News:
The ruling was not focused on the merits of the case itself, but on the stay on the law issued by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, which had blocked the law in February from taking effect. The court did not explain its reasoning for ending the stay but in a concurring opinion, Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh expressed concern about the moves by the appeals court – and suggested it could rule differently on the merits itself.
“Before this Court intervenes on the emergency docket, the Fifth Circuit should be the first mover,” Barrett wrote.
“So far as I know, this Court has never reviewed the decision of a court of appeals to enter — or not enter — an administrative stay. I would not get into the business. When entered, an administrative stay is supposed to be a short-lived prelude to the main event: a ruling on the motion for a stay pending appeal,” she wrote.
Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson issued a scathing dissent accusing their conservative counterparts of inviting “further chaos and crisis in immigration enforcement.”
This story is developing…
More over at Fox News:
BREAKING: SCOTUS okays law letting Texas police arrest migrants suspected of illegally crossing border
https://t.co/EiXC1fCMFT— Fox News (@FoxNews) March 19, 2024