Law letting state police arrest people suspected of illegally crossing US-Mexico border can proceed pending court challenge
The White House strongly criticised the US supreme court on Tuesday for allowing what it called a “harmful and unconstitutional” Texas immigration law to go into effect.
The law, Senate Bill 4 (SB4), allows state authorities to arrest, process and imprison people suspected of crossing the US-Mexico border illegally – thereby infringing on roles long reserved for federal authorities.
The White House press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, said: “We fundamentally disagree with the supreme court’s order allowing Texas’s harmful and unconstitutional law to go into effect. SB4 will not only make communities in Texas less safe, it will also burden law enforcement and sow chaos and confusion at our southern border.”
Send in the National Gaurd…to the Supreme Court.
Better, federalise the Texas National Guard and order it to surround the Supreme Court building.
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The White House press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, said: “We fundamentally disagree with the supreme court’s order allowing Texas’s harmful and unconstitutional law to go into effect.
“Texas passed a law that directly regulates the entry and removal of non-citizens and explicitly instructs its state courts to disregard any ongoing federal immigration proceedings,” said the dissent, written by Sotomayor.
That year, the court struck down parts of an Arizona law that would have allowed police to arrest people for federal immigration violations and was referred to by opponents as a “show me your papers” bill, given the leeway it gave officers to determine who they approached.
This year, on 29 February, a Texas US district judge, David Ezra, preliminarily blocked SB4, saying it “threatens the fundamental notion that the United States must regulate immigration with one voice”.
Gilberto Hinojosa, chair of the Texas Democratic party, countered that SB4 “isn’t about community safety – it’s about enabling [law enforcement] to target neighbourhoods and imprison people for the sake of Fox News headlines.
Sawyer Hackett, an adviser to Julián Castro – a former mayor of San Antonio and candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination – lamented an “incredible” in favour of a “blatantly unconstitutional ‘show me your papers’ law.
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I’m a Latino Canadian, looks like I’m gonna avoid those states like the plague. Fuck that nonsense.
Wasn’t J’Biden the chair of the judiciary committee for the nomination of a couple of those clowns?
