On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court granted Texas a significant victory by enforcing a law that allows local law enforcement to detain people who are suspected of illegally crossing the southwestern border between the United States and Mexico.
” In a 6- 3 determination SCOTUS allows Texas to start enforcing SB4 that allows the arrest of unlawful refugees”, Gov. Greg Abbott ( R- Texas ) tweeted Tuesday evening. The 5th circuits federal court of appeals also needs sessions, the statement reads. But this is obviously a good growth”.
The Supreme Court’s decision to allow Texas to enact Senate Bill 4 comes just one moment after Justice Samuel Alito’s decision partially stifled Texas from enforcing the illegal immigration law, according to The Texas Tribune. Legislative Bill 4 authorizes local law enforcement to detain and punish improper refugees. Additionally, the policy grants state courts the power to evict illegal immigrants.
The country’s law, which was supposed to go into effect on March 5, was immediately halted by a lower court judge, according to The Washington Post. The prosecutor argued that the immigration laws were unconstitutional and” may open the door to each position passing its own version of rules.” But, the U. S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the lower court’s decision, leading the Biden administration to charm its case to the Supreme Court.
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As President Joe Biden’s administration continues to argue that the country’s regulations is illegal and interferes with the federal government’s immigration rules, the Supreme Court’s decision on Tuesday will help Texas to carry out its new illegal immigration rules while the litigation continues in the lower judges. However, the Texas law could still eventually be blocked if the lower courts rule in favor of the Biden administration.
Justice Amy Coney Barrett noted that the lower courts are still expected to make a final decision on the constitutionality of the Texas immigration law despite the Supreme Court majority’s failure to provide a rationale for Tuesday’s decision.
She wrote,” If a decision does not issue soon, the applicants may return to this court”.
Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Ketanji Brown Jackson, and Elena Kagan dissented from the majority’s decision Tuesday. In response to the majority’s decision, Sotomayor claimed,” The court gives a green light to a law that will upend the longstanding federal- state balance of power and sow chaos”.
