Yahoo News by Amanda Yen, AJ McDougall 3/4/2024
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday temporarily blocked a Texas immigration law on an emergency request from the Biden administration amid its fierce battle with the state over how to police the southern border.
The law, Senate Bill 4, allows Texas law enforcement officers to detain and deport undocumented immigrants who cross the border. It will be put on ice until at least March 13 as the high court weighs the case and decides how to proceed, according to an order penned by Justice Samuel Alito. (Alito, a conservative, oversees the federal circuit handling the case, according to CNN.)
The order flips a federal appeals court’s decision that would have allowed the law to go into effect as soon as Sunday morning, provided the Supreme Court didn’t intervene. The three-judge panel’s ruling was itself a reversal of a lower court’s order to block the law, with a federal judge in Austin writing that its implementation “could open the door to each state passing its own version of immigration laws.”
In its emergency request, the Justice Department argued that the law would “create chaos” at the border and was “flatly inconsistent” with precedent set by the Supreme Court over the last century.
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