The number of migrant crossings keeps dropping despite Republican complaints….
Texas changes its pitch on how it border enforcement law would work…..
Acknowledging that they do NOT have the ability to mimic the federal government’s immigration system….And actually cutting off a OUTRIGHT ruling against a state trying to enforcing immigration law….
They have now told the Federal appeals court that they want to be able to catch migrants and turn them over to the border cops… Not actually drop people off at the border….,
The Feds want the Texas law ruled unconstitutional….
CBS News: “It’s the first time in seven years — and the only time during the Biden administration — that illegal crossings along the U.S.-Mexico border did not increase from February to March.”
“The lower-than-expected number of illegal crossings in March is a reprieve for the Biden administration, which has faced an unprecedented humanitarian crisis and a political firestorm as a result of the record numbers of migrants crossing the southern border.”
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‘Maybe Texas went too far’ with immigration law, state lawyer tells federal court
An attorney defending Texas’ controversial immigration law told a federal appeals court on Wednesday that state legislators may have gone “too far” when they passed the law last year.
The law, known as SB4, makes entering Texas illegally a state crime and allows state judges to order immigrants to be deported.
At a hearing before the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals, Texas Solicitor General Aaron Nielson said that when designing the law, lawmakers sought to go “up to the line” in terms of what Supreme Court precedent allows states to do…..
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On Wednesday, Nielson said that, under the Texas Attorney General’s office interpretation of the state law, the migrants subject to state court deportation orders would be turned over to federal immigration authorities at border ports and then the federal officials would determine whether they should be released into the United States while they await further proceedings……..