Supreme Court permits Texas police to arrest people who illegally cross the border as the SB 4 legal clash continues
http://www.texastribune.org/2024/03/19/texas-illegal-immigration-supreme-court-sb-4/
The ruling allows Texas to start enforcing SB 4 while a lawsuit over its constitutionality remains pending before a federal appeals court.
The U.S. Supreme Court in a 6-3 decision on Tuesday ruled that a law allowing Texas police to arrest people suspected of illegally crossing the Texas-Mexico border can take effect while a legal battle over the new state law empowering local law enforcement plays out.
The decision comes a day after the high court had extended its temporary block of the law, and was swiftly denounced by some Mexican officials.
Justice Samuel Alito had issued the block as the high court considered an appeal from the Biden administration, which has argued Senate Bill 4 is unconstitutional because it interferes with federal immigration laws.
The legal case is far from over. The case will now go back to the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, which is scheduled to hear oral arguments in the case on Wednesday. Eventually it has to be resolved in a federal court in Austin, where the lawsuits were originally filed.
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