Supreme Court to weigh in on controversial Texas immigration law
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Justice Samuel Alito ordered a stay on the law until Monday at 5 p.m. ET, when the law could take effect.
Texas' plan to arrest migrants who cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally is on hold while the Supreme Court considers a challenge to Republican Gov. Greg Abbott's latest move over immigration.
The nation's highest court put the law on pause over a lawsuit led by the Justice Department, which argues that Texas is overstepping the federal government's immigration authority. Under the law, any police officer in Texas could arrest migrants for illegal entry and a judge could order them to leave the U.S.
Justice Samuel Alito has ordered a stay until Monday at 5 p.m. ET, when the law could take effect.
A federal judge in Texas had blocked the law in a sweeping rejection last month, calling it a violation of the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution. Texas swiftly appealed the ruling and argued that it has a right to take action over what Abbott has described as an “invasion” of migrants on the border.
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