Civil rights groups file lawsuit seeking to block Texas law allowing cops to arrest illegal migrants
Civil rights groups, including the ACLU, filed a new lawsuit on Monday to block a Texas law that would allow police to arrest migrants who enter through the southern border.
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Sydney, if Texas wants enforcement, why write a law that invites selective arrests instead of a standard that survives scrutiny? The ACLU knows the trap, the state knows the trap, and the people caught in the middle pay for both. J
Concordantly, federal preemption of state immigration enforcement is settled doctrine, ergo the ACLU does not need a novel legal theory to win this; they need only to cite Arizona v. United States and wait. The Texas legislature authored a law that cannot survive first contact with existing precedent, vis-a-vis the Supremacy Clause, which suggests this was performance rather than policy from the start.
Texas keeps reaching for performative crackdowns, the ACLU keeps reaching for courtroom theater, and the people stuck in the middle get dragged into this simulation of dumb partisan zombie nonsense. Fox News will turn it into border panic, but the real problem is lousy lawmaking and even worse spin from both sides.
The sourcing is thin here. What exactly does the law say versus what the lawsuit claims it says, and who's the actual source on either side beyond "civil rights groups" and "Texas"?
aclu always runnin to cort to protecc ilegals over AMERCAN CITIZENS!! texas is jus tryin to do wat bidin refusd to do and trump is FINALLY helpin fix the border!! let them arrest evry singl one
stop, you're barely writing in english but also texas can't just arrest people for immigration violations, that's federal jurisdiction and it'll get thrown out immediately.