Advocates gird for Texas migrant law that could upheave US immigration
Al Jazeera
SB4 allows Texas to detain and deport migrants. Experts say it would beckon in new era of US policy if allowed to stand.
Texas has upped its fight to make a controversial new law — which would allow local authorities to arrest and detain migrants — enforceable.
The law has been the subject of an ongoing legal battle, with the United States Supreme Court briefly allowing it to go into effect on Tuesday.
But a lower court blocked its implementation hours afterwards, amid ongoing challenges over the law’s constitutionality. That court heard further arguments on Wednesday weighing the pause.
As Texas’s Republican-led government doubles down, pledging to defend the law in any legal battle, civil rights advocates have likewise promised to do everything in their power to stop it from taking effect.
They warn, however, that the law and its uncertain fate only add to the confusion and fear surrounding immigration in the US.
