RICHMOND, Va. ( WSET ) — Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares has joined a 22- state coalition supporting a Texas law that makes illegal immigration a state crime and authorizes state officials to enforce it.
Texas’s state laws, SB4, makes illegal immigration into Texas a state violence and allows position courts and judges to get those who have crossed the border improperly back to the country from which they entered. The U. S. government and private defendants filed fit over the legislation. A U. S. District Court blocked the laws, and the situation is now before the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
” The emigration crisis has rendered every express a border position, and I swore an oath to protect Puritans”, said Attorney General Miyares. ” Areas are hurting and people are scared, but any possible solution to this common health tragedy has been blocked or ignored. When will adequately be plenty”?
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The amicus brief filed by the states in support of Texas’s rules argues,” States furthermore bear an commitment to their citizens to tackle the assistant common problems. That obligation implicates one of Amici States ‘ core sovereign prerogatives—enacting legislation pursuant to their police powers to protect their citizens ‘ safety… Similarly, Amici States have a major interest in ensuring that their lawfully enacted state laws are not incorrectly held unconstitutional under inappropriate preemption analyses”.
Attorney General Miyares joined Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, West Virginia, and Wyoming on the amicus brief.
