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Texas border enforcement law again blocked in legal whiplash

March 20 (Reuters) - A Republican-backed Texas law that would empower law enforcement authorities in the state to arrest people suspected of illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border was blocked again late on Tuesday by a federal appeals court, just hours after the U.S. Supreme Court had cleared the way for it to go into effect.

The New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals halted enforcement of the law, reviving a federal judge's order blocking it in response to a challenge by Democratic President Joe Biden's administration. The 5th Circuit set arguments for Wednesday on whether to keep the block in place while Texas appeals it.

The legal back and forth in the case has caused uncertainty about the future of the measure signed in December by Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott.
The Biden administration sued in January to stop the law, known as SB 4, which was originally set to take effect on March 5. The administration argued it violates the U.S. Constitution and federal law by interfering with the U.S. government's power to regulate immigration as well as running afoul of a 2012 Supreme Court precedent.

The statute authorizes Texas law enforcement to arrest people suspected of entering the United States illegally, giving local officers powers long delegated to the federal government. Abbott said the law was needed due to Biden's failure to enforce federal laws criminalizing illegal entry or re-entry.

The Supreme Court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, on Tuesday had decided to let the law take effect, with the three liberal justices in dissent.

The law is one of several measures put in place by Abbott aimed at deterring migration in the state including deploying National Guard troops and state law enforcement under its Operation Lone Star and placing concertina wire and floating buoy barriers along the Rio Grande river.

On Tuesday night at the border between Ciudad Juarez, Mexico and El Paso, Texas, several groups of migrants who had already crossed the river into the United States but were blocked by concertina wire along the banks built fires for warmth in makeshift encampments made of sheets and sticks, waiting for a chance to navigate through the barrier.

'CHAOS AND CONFUSION'

Republicans have criticized Biden's handling of the record numbers of migrants caught illegally crossing the border. Abbott and other Republicans favor the restrictive policies of former President Donald Trump, their party's candidate challenging Biden in the Nov. 5 U.S. election.

Opinion polls reveal acute voter concern over the situation along the border. Reuters/Ipsos polling showed Biden's public approval level at 37% as of Feb. 28.

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said on Tuesday the Texas law would "sow chaos and confusion at our southern border."

The Texas law made illegal entry or re-entry into Texas a state crime, with penalties ranging from 180 days in jail to 20 years in prison. It would require Texas magistrate judges to order migrants to return to Mexico, with up to 20-year sentences for those who refuse to comply.

Mexico said on Tuesday it would not accept those repatriated by Texas.

Texas-based U.S. District Judge David Ezra on Feb. 29 sided with the Biden administration and agreed to preliminarily block Texas officials from enforcing the law, saying it "threatens the fundamental notion that the United States must regulate immigration with one voice."

But the 5th Circuit paused Ezra's ruling in an order that would have let the law take effect on March 10, prompting the administration to file an emergency request to the Supreme Court. Justice Samuel Alito, acting for the Supreme Court, on March 4 had halted the 5th Circuit ruling - and thus the law - from taking effect, giving the justices more time to consider the matter.

A 5th Circuit panel, in a 2-1 vote, on Tuesday night lifted the administrative stay ahead of arguments on whether to once again put on hold the judge's injunction while Texas pursues an appeal.

The majority in the appeals court's order included Judge Priscilla Richman, an appointee of Republican former President George W. Bush, and Judge Irma Carrillo Ramirez, a Biden appointee. Judge Andrew Oldham, an appointee of Republican former President Donald Trump, dissented.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us...law-illegal-border-crossings-2024-03-19/

As opposed to this?

Gets on DT. Immediately starts crying.

Gonna be a long day lol.

It would take an entire paragraph to point out everything wrong with this "sentence".

Yep, anything but an answer, we know.

Just showing you, and everyone else that you are just like the person you are pointing your finger at. But of course I didn't expect yo to take any personal responsibility for it.

Texas Immigration law is headed to appeals court. On hold again. The NAZIS must wait.

Yeah, the circuit court stopped in again last night.

...you seem to be enjoying the word repatriation with yourself.

This just goes to show that the libtards were never serious about closing the border. That whole Congress bill was just a dog and pony show for voters.

Yeah, like a comprehensive immigration bill Republicans refused to support. Can you explain what a court decision has to do with "libtards".

It looks like we need a little repugnantcan splainin'.

Back in the day we had two words for what many so called republicans have become. “Nazi sympathizers”

It's simple. Your butt cheeks and every other libtard's butt cheeks clenched the second the SCOTUS made the ruling.

GOPer tears when libtards play the appeals game? It was obvious which way the SCOTUS would rule. We were just waiting for the pain. Lol

Repatriation is defined as the process of returning someone to their country of origin so it makes perfect sense that they would say they would not take people who are not Mexican citizens. And we should not repatriate people anywhere except their home country.

Now if Mexico tried to decline to take repatriated Mexicans and our president has a backbone his response should be, well, okie dokie, then starting tomorrow there will be a 50% tariff on any product coming from Mexico. I have a feeling ghat will take care of that issue.

Finally, you lefties have only yourselves to blame for this mess so quitcherbitchin!! All Biden had to do was keep the Trump policies in place. No new legislation, no new orders. Just keep them in place and we are still seeing the 45-50k per month,not 225k per month. The border would be much quieter and most Americans would be reasonably satisfied.

Instead Biden destroys border security and discovers something new. Most Americans want our border to be a border and be controlled by us. Most Americans believe that who comes into this country should be determined by America and Americans, not by millions of people who break into our country like thieves in the night.

It was obvious because the SCOTUS made the correct ruling. Texas has the right to defend itself.

I take 100% responsibility. I treat all trolls with no impunity.

The difference is that he's belittling Arch... who does that to nobody.

Not that anyone would expect you to understand that. You haven't followed along past two posts in a thread in years.

You're showing something, just not what you think.

Wobbler? Any comment? Since you're so smart and belittle others intellect, what is your enlightened response to these facts?

That's a figment of your imagination. I won't speak for other posters but as for myself I was fully aware of what the SCOTUS ruling actually meant. They even stated it themselves. they said take it back to the circuit court. They weren't going to block the law because it hadn't yet gone through the process of the other courts. Usually the SCOTUS allows these things to go through the entire process before they rule one way or the other. It wasn't even a ruling on the law itself. The ruling was whether they would block the law from being enacted while it was going through this process.

You might wish to look at which side jumped on here like they were celebrating their birthdays because they thought this was an actual ruling on the law.

Where the part that doesn't make sense is that the law makes police officers who are not at the border to try and figure out who is and who isn't illegal. I'll tell you something that does make sense if you actually want to help stop illegal border crossings. There are thousands of National guard troops already at the border. They do not have the authority to arrest or detain people. That doesn't make any sense.

If Abbott wanted to stop people crossing the border he would have given the National Guard the power to detain and arrest people illegally crossing the border because they are at the border.

You see, some people look into things. Some people know what a courts order includes and doesn't include. You too could learn those things if you didn't think the word "libtard" was the answer to everything.

You do it to everyone you disagree with and label them trolls. You're no different than any of those you label you just won't step up to the plate and admit it. The only person you're fooling is yourself.

Repatriating means returning something to its origin. Repatriation doesn’t only apply to people. Anyways, the Mexician government said they won’t take any repatriations under any circumstances from the state of Texas…period. Mexican’s arrested in Texas legal or illegal.

You have no idea how badly that would impact inflation. Then you would blame Biden for it.

j/c...

Abbott has demonstrated to this poor excuse of a president what leadership looks like.

It's too bad it's Biden's disaster he's forced to clean up.

It wouldn't happen. Mexico would discover our president has a set (and so would our president) and act accordingly.

And even if they didn't, Biden created the disaster, so...

Umm Mexico is refusing reparations from the state of Texas only. Not from any other state. Texas is on their own here. They went their own way and the SCOTUS backed the NAZI scheme.

Yes, when inflation went through the roof from the ery policies you propose, you would blame Biden. You still think acting like a dictator and a bully is the best way to lead.

It's not that funny. 10M+ is a huge drain on resources meant for actual Americans. Not that I'm surprised you find that humorous. As long as it's not you and there's a chance to virtue signal, right?

Cool. Send them back through California. A cheap bus ride would save taxpayers millions.

AKA Mexico is sending all there undesirables to Texas because they think Biden will let them. Biden will probably let them because he knows the undesirables would probably vote Democrat. /Purple...kind of...

Texas Tax payers for sure. Federal tax payers will loose big time.

No it would elicit the response from Mexico that we want. Just like when Trump wanted Mexico’s support on “remain in Mexico “, when he wanted Mexico to provide military support to their southern border to reduce the flow of migrants thru Mexico, when he wanted support from Mexico at our southern border he just whispered the word “tariff” to the Mexican president and they made it happen. They would respond the same way here.

None of this Texas stuff would be happening if Biden and the Feds had done their job. You lefties don’t care but most Americans do. 75% of Americans think the border is a crisis or a bad situation. Biden did not and did not care until it became a situation for voters.

That's the response you give when avoiding anything of substance. I plainly stated that if you want to stop people AT the border, you empower people AT the border. There are thousands of National Guard troops AT the border. They do not have the power to arrest or detain people. That's just stupid. If Abbott really wanted to stop people from crossing the border his new law would have empowered National Guard troops to detain and arrest people crossing the border.

You make it sound as though anyone who disagrees with the way this law is written doesn't want to stop illegal immigrants from coming into our country. That's simply not true. But that's not what this law does. These immigrants for the most part don't "stay in Texas". They go to cities and states all across this country. Hell, even Abbott just sends them to other places on buses. The only way law enforcement can determine whether someone is here legally or not is to stop them and ask them for paperwork. And if they were born here the only paperwork they would have is a drivers license. I wonder how many people's rights you're willing to sacrifice in order to get what you want even when it will have little actual impact on the problem? I guess it's a lot easier when they don't look like you do.

Yeah that’s it. Lol ..immigrants with voting rights. Republican edjumaction.

Yeah if you’re a NAZI.

Do you mean like this?

Mexico to put $1.5 bln into upgrading border as Biden meets Lopez Obrador

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/presidents-us-mexico-meet-after-summit-tensions-2022-07-12/

Obviously you haven't been paying attention. I've been saying there's a border crisis for a while now. At one time the numbers dipped but they quickly rose again. The difference is some on your side say it can be fixed for free and refuse to fund more border agents and immigration judges. At your stage in life I thought you would have figured out that nothing comes for free.

I didn't say they could. I was saying they would if they could. They're your kind of people. Numbers for "peaceful" rallies.

Hey, maybe they'd choose violence and go full MAGA.

What does MAC conference sports have to do with anything?

Maybe they will pull over the Russians here illegally. I’m sure they won’t be profiling.

I don't read perfectspirals posts. He's added nothing to a thread in years.

That's not entirely true. I remember him having a coherent thought in a post game thread once, I think it was during the Baker days though.