2024-03-19 14:30:38
Earlier today, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to stay implementation of a Texas state law allowing deportation of illegal immigrants.
NBC News has the story: Supreme Court allows Texas to enforce immigration law:
The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that it will allow Texas to enforce for now a contentious new law that gives local police the power to arrest migrants.
The conservative-majority court, with three liberal justices dissenting, rejected an emergency request by the Biden administration, which said states have no authority to legislate on immigration, an issue the federal government has sole authority over.
That means the law can go into effect while litigation continues in lower courts. It could still be blocked at a later date.
The three liberal Justices dissented and were not happy:
“The court gives a green light to a law that will upend the longstanding federal-state balance of power and sow chaos,” liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in a dissenting opinion. Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson also objected to the decision….
In a separate opinion, Kagan wrote that the Texas law appears to conflict with federal law, noting that “the subject of immigration generally, and the entry and removal of noncitizens particularly, are matters long thought the special province of the federal government.”
The case has a unique court history:
The law in question, known as SB4, allows police to arrest migrants who illegally cross the border from Mexico and imposes criminal penalties. It would also empower state judges to order people to be deported to Mexico….
A federal judge blocked the law after the Biden administration sued, but the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said in a brief order that it could go into effect March 10 if the Supreme Court declined to intervene. The appeals court has not yet decided whether to grant the federal government’s request to block the law.
On March 4, Justice Samuel Alito issued a temporary freeze on the law to give the Supreme Court time to consider the federal government’s request.
Consider it they did, and the Court found the Biden Administration’s attempt to block the law unavailing.
HUGE WIN.
The Supreme Court will now ALLOW the Texas National Guard to arrest & deport illegal aliens within the state of Texas.
A big blow to the Biden administration. pic.twitter.com/93jyeJNzOC
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) March 19, 2024
???????? HUGE WIN: 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.
— Attorney General Ken Paxton (@KenPaxtonTX) March 19, 2024
As expected, liberals, who love illegal immigrants, are very upset:
God damn these Republican assholes on the Supreme Court. https://t.co/XEqKpaJ0rg
— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) March 19, 2024
BREAKING: The US Supreme Court has allowed Texas to start arresting and deporting people who enter the country illegally, refusing to block a new law that the Biden administration says will be an unprecedented intrusion on federal power to set immigration policy.
— unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) March 19, 2024
Mar. 19, 2024: So SCOTUS is allowing Texas state police to arrest migrants suspected of crossing its southern border illegally, ignoring the federal government’s power to set immigration policy? The federal government should stop giving Texas $68 billion in annual federal aid… pic.twitter.com/TjjxGNbXX8
— Route60plus (@Route_60plus) March 19, 2024
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