Florida cannot enforce a new law that would bar illegal immigrants from entering the Sunshine State, the Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday.
“The application for stay presented to Justice Thomas and by him referred to the Court is denied,” read the order rejecting Florida’s emergency appeal to the high court.
No justices dissented, and the court did not provide a written opinion explaining the order.
US District Judge Kathleen Williams, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, blocked Florida from enforcing the new law in April.
The Supreme Court order will leave Williams’ pause in place while the legal challenge over the law plays out.
The law makes it a misdemeanor offense to enter Florida as an illegal immigrant.
It was signed into law by Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in February as part of sweeping legislation in support of President Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration.
State Attorney General James Uthmeier argued that the law was necessary to protect Floridians from “the deluge of illegal immigration,” in his appeal to the Supreme Court.
“If a State’s police powers are powers at all, they allow a State to criminalize harms destructive to the community,” he wrote, according to the Tallahassee Democrat. --->READ MORE HERE
The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected Florida‘s emergency request to allow the state to enforce a law that would ban illegal immigrants from entering the state.
The decision leaves a lower court’s ruling in place. The Supreme Court did not explain its decision, and no dissents were filed.
Senate Bill 4C, approved by Florida’s legislature and signed into law by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) earlier this year, makes it a crime for illegal immigrants to enter the state if they had been deported or previously denied entry into the United States, regardless of their history or if they had become lawful residents.
Re-entering the state after being deported would have been deemed a felony. Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier asked the Supreme Court to intervene last month and allow law enforcement. He said the state and its citizens will “remain disabled from combating the serious harms of illegal immigration for years as this litigation proceeds through the lower courts,” without intervention.
But the Supreme Court is leaving U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams’s preliminary injunction in place while a legal battle on the law continues. --->READ MORE HERE
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