Posted on 03/04/2024 2:53:47 PM PST by packagingguy
The Biden administration asked the Supreme Court to weigh in on a controversial law in Texas that allows state and local law enforcement to arrest people they believe entered the country illegally—the latest move in a back and forth on the Texas law that President Joe Biden’s team thinks undermines federal immigration law.
In an emergency request filed to the Supreme Court Monday, the Department of Justice said Texas’ state Senate Bill 4—which was signed into law in December and initially set to go into effect on Tuesday—would “profoundly (alter) the status quo that has existed between the United States and the States in the context of immigration for almost 150 years.”
The law allows state and local law enforcement officers in Texas to arrest and jail anyone they suspect crossed the border illegally, which immigration advocates like the ACLU of Texas are concerned “fuels racial profiling and harassment.”
The law would also put the U.S.’s relationship with Mexico at risk, the filing said, saying that if Texas can “remove noncitizens to Mexico without its consent,” there would be “significant and immediate adverse effects” on the relationship with Mexico that is “critical to the federal government’s ability to effectively address immigration at the southwest border.”
The Biden administration argues in the filing that “the authority to admit and remove noncitizens is a core responsibility of the National Government,” not that of states, and that allowing Texas’ law to go into effect would conflict with past rulings from the court.
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So the administration has gone from "there is no border crisis" to "the border is closed" to "we can't do anything without Congress" to "migration is driven by climate change" to "you can't pass a state law about illegal immigration".
So which one is it? Is the border secure or not? If it is why worry that Texas will be arresting illegals? If the administration was following the law wouldn't they just send them back home?
Not so great messaging in an election year.
You'd think someone with dementia would have thought up this campaign strategy.
Proof positive this POS hates us and is being controlled by others.
Time for Roberts, ACB and Kavanaugh to get their midnight phone call directing them as to how they will vote on this issue which matters a great deal to the Deep State.
A bank with open doors and free cash has no deposits anymore.
I wonder what took them so long ...
“the ACLU of Texas are concerned “fuels racial profiling and harassment.”
So, the Texas Rangers will see some brownish fellow speaking Spanish and immediately arrest him.
Good Lord, have these people ever BEEN to Texas?
What are the odds that the Supreme Court will totally blow it or say no standing?
Let them try and enforce their decision.
What is currently undermining federal immigration law is the federal government.
CC
The SC ruling in favor of Trump asserts that Federal law overrules State law by 9-0...
Hmmmm...
This is insane. The FEDERAL government asks SCOTUS to rule on a STATE enforcing federal law that the federal government chooses to ignore.
Talk about a banana republic.
Go back 20 years, perhaps a little more, police forces were
sure to take illegals into custody, and mark them return to
sender.
I'm expecting it. The leftists can't have Texas bottling up their portion of the US border. So, I expect serious blackmail going on with the SCOTUS. The Biden administration cannot lose this argument.
The Texas Rangers probably have a lot of Hispanics on their force.
Many of their families have lived there for hundreds of years.
What Trump Has Already Won - November 3, 2020, Townhall article by Larry O'Connor
The enforcement of our immigration laws (not new laws, just the robust enforcement of the laws passed by Congress and previous administrations) has been an incredible reward for Americans who respect the rule of law.
Who on the court handles emergency requests for Texas...anyone know?
My hope is that the Supreme Court thinks through the ramifications of entertaining what this criminal administration requests. America needs a rebirth of Justice.
Every non-baseball Texas Ranger I’ve run into is brown, has a Spanish accent has a Latino surname.
All the others are gingers.
I’ve run into more than my share of Rangers while in Texas.
To the state of Texas,...they are trespassers...and have no right to be in Texas.
The problem is...The Feds are not enforcing existing laws which is resulting in trespass into the Great State of Texas...and other states.
That’s relative to a particular case....involving a FEDERAL election. The court was specific that the State could control local elections.
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