Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is expected to sign a Texas-sized challenge to the Biden administration that would give the state the legal right to deport illegal immigrants.
Last week, the Republican-majority state Legislature gave final approval to a bill that responds to the vast number of illegal immigrants crossing the Southern border, according to the Houston Chronicle.
Federal numbers show that 188,778 illegal immigrants were arrested in October, a dip from the 218,763 arrested in September, according to the Associated Press.
“Thank you to Rep. @JaceyJetton & Rep. @DavidSpillerTX for leading the effort to pass Senate Bill 3 & Senate Bill 4 in the Texas House. I look forward to working with both chambers to get these priorities across the finish line. Texas won’t wait on Biden to secure the border,” Abbott posted on X.
Thank you to Rep. @JaceyJetton & Rep. @DavidSpillerTX for leading the effort to pass Senate Bill 3 & Senate Bill 4 in the Texas House.
I look forward to working with both chambers to get these priorities across the finish line.
Texas won’t wait on Biden to secure the border.
— Gov. Greg Abbott (@GovAbbott) November 15, 2023
The legislation gives illegal immigrants who are arrested by state and local authorities a choice — remain in Texas within the confines of a prison for up to 20 years or accept deportation to Mexico. --->READ MORE HERE
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Greg Abbott, the Texas governor, is expected to sign two rightwing immigration bills, setting off a likely constitutional battle over a new law that allows state and local police to arrest anyone suspected of crossing the Texas-Mexico border without documentation.
SB4, one of the harshest anti-immigration laws in US history, makes it a state crime to cross into Texas from another country without papers.
State judges are now required to order a migrant to return to the country they came from in lieu of prosecution. If the migrant refuses the judge’s order, they could face a felony charge and up to 20 years in prison. SB4 also gives Texas officers the ability to arrest anyone who they believe has crossed into the state illegally, a power that immigrant advocates and Democrats have decried as racist.
“This is un-American,” said the Texas state representative Jolanda Jones, a Democrat. “It will victimize people from the southern border, people of Latino descent.”
Jones told the Guardian that SB4 is “state-sanctioned” racism against Latinos, noting that the new law does not contain a remedy for Americans who are wrongfully detained, arrested or deported by sheriffs or state police.
“It will separate children from their parents,” Jones said.
The controversial state law is the newest anti-immigration brainchild of Texas Republicans. In June,Abbott bussed migrants to Democratic-led cities without proper coordination. That same month, Texas launched Operation Lone Star, a multimillion-dollar initiative that has placed razor wire and thousands of troops at the Texas-Mexico border. --->READ MORE HERE
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