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Supreme Court allows strict Texas SB4 immigration law to take effect for now
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The law would authorize local and state law enforcement to arrest migrants they suspect crossed into the state illegally. It would also also give judges the power to order migrants to be transported to a port of entry and returned to Mexico regardless of their country of origin.

The Biden administration has argued that immigration law is solely the responsibility of the federal government, and not local jurisdictions, as laid out in the Constitution.
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Justice Sonia Sotomayor, in a dissent joined by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, said Tuesday the decision "invites further chaos and crisis in immigration enforcement."

"Texas can now immediately enforce its own law imposing criminal liability on thousands of noncitizens and requiring their removal to Mexico," Sotomayor wrote. "This law will disrupt sensitive foreign relations, frustrate the protection of individuals fleeing persecution, hamper active federal enforcement efforts, undermine federal agencies' ability to detect and monitor imminent security threats, and deter noncitizens from reporting abuse or trafficking."

"The Court gives a green light to a law that will upend the longstanding federal-state balance of power and sow chaos, when the only court to consider the law concluded that it is likely unconstitutional," she continued. "This law implicates serious issues that are subject to ongoing political debate, and Texas's novel scheme requires careful and reasoned consideration in the courts to determine which provisions may be unconstitutional. Although the Court today expresses no view on whether Texas's law is constitutional, and instead defers to a lower court's management of its docket, the Court of Appeals abused its discretion by entering an unreasoned and indefinite administrative stay that altered the status quo. This Court stands idle. Because I cannot, I dissent."
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All six of the court's conservative justices agreed with the decision to allow SB 4 to take effect for now.
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Immigrant advocates swiftly condemned the decision. Immigration Hub Deputy Director Beatriz Lopez called it "awful and disturbing."

"The Court just gave Abbott the green light to make targets out of immigrants and American citizens alike," Lopez said in a statement to ABC News. "This doesn't do anything to fix our immigration system or make Texas safer. It only serves to codify hate and empower an already unhinged governor."

The ACLU said it will continue to challenge SB 4 in court.

"#SB4 allows police to arrest people over suspicions about their immigration status, threatening Texans who are citizens and noncitizens alike," the ACLU of Texas said in a post on X, calling it an "extreme anti-immigrant law."