If a contentious Texas immigration regulation is approved, Mexico is warning the two countries that there will be” substantial pressure” that will have a significant impact on US-Mexico relations.
Attorneys for Mexico claimed that US relationships may get strained in a friend-of-the-court brief filed with the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday.
By criminalizing the illicit entry of noncitizens into Texas from outside the county and creating divergent removal requirements between and among personal states and the federal government, they wrote in the simple.” Enforcement of SB 4 would improperly burden the uniform and predictable royal- to- sovereign relations between Mexico and the United States,” they wrote in the brief.
” Police of SB 4 may also interfere with Mexico’s right to determine its own policies regarding entrance into its place, undermine U. S. Mexico cooperation on a legal movement construction and border management, and prevent U. S. Mexico trade”, the attorneys told the court.
Signed into law , by Republican Gov. In a law passed by Governor Abbott in December, which makes entering Texas illegally a state crime, and permits state judges to order deportations of immigrants. US immigration enforcement, generally, is a function of the federal government.
While considering whether Texas can impose Senate Bill 4, the 5th Circuit is currently weighing whether the law violates the US Constitution. After the Supreme Court made it possible for a brief period of time earlier that day, a three-judge panel on the appeals court put the law back on hold late on Tuesday.
Non-parties submit briefs like the one filed by Mexico to provide information and legal counsel on a pending case, which is technically known as an amicus brief. The decision to allow for amicus briefs comes under a court’s discretion. Some amici may submit briefs either in support of one or both parties.
Mexico said it was backing the law’s challengers, which include the Biden administration. In their brief on Thursday, its attorneys argued that if the law were to go into effect, it would “be applied in a discriminatory manner.”
According to Mexican Foreign Minister Alicia Barcena earlier on Thursday, the 11 consulates in Texas have been given the authority to provide protection and guidance and have provided legal assistance to any Mexican nationals who” starts to have a problem” under the new law.
” This law is deeply unconstitutional”, Barcena said, arguing that immigration issues in the US are under federal jurisdiction, just like in Mexico.
” So, we are not going to allow any action by the state of Texas, neither the authorities, nor the police, nor anyone who acts on immigration matters at a state level, at the county level, this is a federal matter and for us too. So we are there”, the minister said.
