Texas Gov. Abbott empowers police to arrest illegal border crossers, as thousands more pour in

[mystery-ak]

 Texas Gov. Abbott empowers police to arrest illegal border crossers, as thousands more pour in
By Social Links for Alex Oliveira
Published Dec. 18, 2023, 6:25 p.m. ET

Texas governor Greg Abbott signed a new law Monday which gives law enforcement officers in the state the power to arrest anyone suspected of entering the country illegally.

The measure comes as photos showed thousands of migrants in Customs and Border Protection (CBP) custody at Eagle Pass in the state, after illegally making their way into the country Sunday night and Monday morning.

Texas also halted two train crossings from Mexico at El Paso and Eagle Pass as of 8 a.m. Monday, on routes where thousands of migrants have been hitching rides through northern Mexico to the border.

Under Abbott’s new law, known as SB4, illegally entering the country into Texas will become a state crime. People arrested under the law will be able to choose whether to follow a judge’s orders to leave the country or be prosecuted and face either jail or a fine up to $2,000. Repeat offenders will then by charged with a felony.

At the signing in Brownsville, Gov. Abbott said: “[Law enforcement officers] are seeing with their own eyes people who are violating the law and now they’re going to have the ability to arrest them, prosecute them, make them subject to jail, make them subject to being sent back and make them subject to even greater penalties if they dare to come into Texas a second time.”

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https://nypost.com/2023/12/18/news/texas-gov-abbott-signs-law-allowing-police-to-arrest-illegal-migrants/

[Right_in_Virginia]

GOP Gov. Abbott signs border bill that makes entering Texas illegally a state crime
CNN, Dec 18, 2023

Republican Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas signed into law Monday a bill that makes entering Texas illegally a state crime, an extraordinary step in the hard-fought legal battle between the state and the federal government over efforts to curtail illegal immigration.

The measure, SB 4, grants local law enforcement the power to arrest migrants and judges the ability to issue orders to remove them to Mexico. It has sent ripples of fear throughout the Latino community in Texas, which makes up 40% of the state’s population, and was condemned by civil rights organizations and immigration advocacy groups after the Texas legislature passed it last month.

The ongoing surge of migration at the US-Mexico border has placed immense pressure on local and federal resources. Abbott and the Biden administration have sparred over some of the state’s measures to curb illegal immigration along the southern border. On Sunday, US Customs and Border Protection announced it would temporarily suspend operations at the international railway crossing bridges in Eagle Pass and El Paso, Texas, starting Monday, due to a surge in border crossings by migrants. Border authorities apprehended about 192,000 migrants between ports of entry in November, a 2% increase compared with the 188,000 migrant apprehensions in October, US Border Patrol Chief Jason Owens told CNN.

More:
https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/18/politics/texas-border-bill-abbott/index.html?Date=20231218&Profile=cnnbrk&utm_content=1702937772&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

[libertybele]

Texas Gov. Abbott empowers police to arrest illegal border crossers, as thousands more pour in
By Social Links for Alex Oliveira
Published Dec. 18, 2023, 6:25 p.m. ET

Texas governor Greg Abbott signed a new law Monday which gives law enforcement officers in the state the power to arrest anyone suspected of entering the country illegally.

The measure comes as photos showed thousands of migrants in Customs and Border Protection (CBP) custody at Eagle Pass in the state, after illegally making their way into the country Sunday night and Monday morning.

Texas also halted two train crossings from Mexico at El Paso and Eagle Pass as of 8 a.m. Monday, on routes where thousands of migrants have been hitching rides through northern Mexico to the border.

Under Abbott’s new law, known as SB4, illegally entering the country into Texas will become a state crime. People arrested under the law will be able to choose whether to follow a judge’s orders to leave the country or be prosecuted and face either jail or a fine up to $2,000. Repeat offenders will then by charged with a felony.

At the signing in Brownsville, Gov. Abbott said: “[Law enforcement officers] are seeing with their own eyes people who are violating the law and now they’re going to have the ability to arrest them, prosecute them, make them subject to jail, make them subject to being sent back and make them subject to even greater penalties if they dare to come into Texas a second time.”

more
https://nypost.com/2023/12/18/news/texas-gov-abbott-signs-law-allowing-police-to-arrest-illegal-migrants/

Every governor needs to follow and pass similar laws.

[mystery-ak]

Texas slapped with lawsuit over new law allowing police to arrest migrants who cross the border illegally
ACLU of Texas called Senate Bill 4 the nation’s 'most extreme anti-immigration law'
By Bradford Betz Fox News
Published December 19, 2023 3:12pm EST

Civil rights groups, including the ACLU, filed a lawsuit against the State of Texas on Tuesday over a new law that gives police the authority to arrest migrants who cross the border illegally and allows judges to order them to leave the U.S.

The American Civil Liberties Union, its Texas branch, and the Texas Civil Rights Project claim on behalf of El Paso County and two immigrant aid groups that the new law, Senate Bill 4, is unconstitutional and preempted by federal law.

The ACLU of Texas called the law the nation’s "most extreme anti-immigration law."

https://twitter.com/ACLUTx/status/1737172401283096976

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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/texas-lawsuit-new-law-allowing-police-arrest-migrants-who-cross-border-illegally

[DefiantMassRINO]

Keep sending those migrant buses up North.

Instead of deporting illegals to their countries of origin (which is expensive), deport them to a sanctuary city or sanctuary state with a one-way bus ticket.

No Ukraine nor Israel money until Biden's Open Border is closed.  American taxpayers should not have to pay to defend other nations' borders while their Government fails to defend its own.

Keep raising Hell, Gov. Abbott.