Supreme Court delays Texas deportation law for a second time

The Supreme Court on Monday indefinitely delayed a Texas law that would empower state authorities to arrest and deport migrants, an effort by Republican legislators to give the state immigration enforcement powers long left solely to the federal government.

For the second time, Justice Samuel Alito extended a stay halting the law, known as Senate Bill 4. The order was released minutes after a 4 p.m. deadline, prompting initial confusion over whether the court decided to let the law stand.

Alito offered no explanation in the single-page order and did not set a deadline on the latest extension, blocking the law indefinitely while a longer legal battle plays out over its constitutionality.

The Justice Department, El Paso County and civil and immigrant rights groups are suing to stop it, arguing that the law runs afoul of more than a century of court precedent on immigration powers and would interfere with the federal government's enforcement efforts. The law faces a separate legal challenge from four Texas residents who could face arrest and removal if it takes effect.

Texas Republicans, who passed the law last fall, say it is necessary to protect the state against an “invasion” of migrants seeking asylum in the United States and Mexican drug cartels. They say the state has to step in because the federal government is not doing enough to stop border crossings, which have hit records under the Biden administration.

Before the order was issued, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick addressed the Supreme Court’s conservative majority members in a TV news interview Monday, saying, “To the Supreme Court justices who are watching Fox, I am sure this morning as they get up early, we are being attacked, Lawrence, by land, by sea, by air, literally.”

The Biden Admin. and the SCOTUS are cutting off legal wats to solve this major problem.

1800s:
anti-immigrant protests culminated into riots in Philadelphia in 1844;
St. Louis in 1854,
Cincinnati and Louisville in 1855;
Baltimore in 1856;
Washington, D.C.,
New York City in 1857;
New Orleans in 1858.

In May and July 1844, Philadelphia suffered some of the bloodiest rioting of the antebellum period, as anti-immigrant mobs attacked Irish-Americans before being suppressed by the militia. The violence was part of a wave of riots that convulsed American cities starting in the 1830s.

1907 (people from India)
On September 4th, 1907 five hundred white working men in Bellingham, WA gathered to drive a community of South Asian migrant workers out of the city. With the mission of “scar[ing] them so badly that they will not crowd white labor out of the mills,” the growing mob rallied and went to work.1 The rioters moved through town, breaking windows, throwing rocks, indiscriminately beating people, overpowering a few police officers, and pulling men out of their workplaces and homes. They eventually rounded up two hundred or so of the South Asian immigrant workers in the basement of City Hall to stay the night. The mob was successful in that within ten days the entire South Asian population departed town. Despite promises of protections from city officials, the South Asian workers well understood that there was no protection for them in Bellingham and migrated up and down the Pacific coast looking for safer and saner living conditions.
From: The 1907 Bellingham Riots in Historical Context
by David Cahn
/depts.washington.edu/civilr/bham_history.htm

Waiting for a SCOTUS decision is like watching an Alfred Hitchcock suspense thriller.

One time good, one time bad, delaying decision, afraid to rule, then another bad ruling. No consistent rulings by the precedents and the US Constitution.

Sheesh.

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