The Texas governor said that his state would continue to enact other measures to curb migration at its southern border with Mexico.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott said that his administration would continue to carry out measures to secure the southern border after suffering a blow in federal appeals court late Tuesday.
Hours after the U.S. Supreme Court gave the green light to allow Texas law enforcement to arrest migrants suspected of entering the country illegally, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals put the state bill back on hold pending Texas’ appeal of a federal judge’s ruling last month that blocked the measure from being implemented.
The law, Senate Bill 4, makes entering Texas illegally a state crime and allows state judges to order that migrants who violate the law be deported. Critics of the bill, including the Biden Administration and immigration advocates, say that the bill is unconstitutional and that authority to detain or deport migrants rests with the federal government.
