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The 2-1 decision came late Tuesday from a three-judge panel at the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. It keeps the state of Texas from enforcing the law, known as SB 4, as the legal challenge against it continues in federal court.
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The tense moment Thursday occurred at a time when the El Paso Sector of U.S. Border Patrol has seen about 1,000 migrant encounters per day.
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A federal appeals court blocked Senate Bill 4 from going into effect. The bill could grant local police departments the authority to enforce state immigration policies.
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The legal battle over SB4, which gives local and state police the authority to arrest someone suspected of illegally entering Texas, has become an emotional roller coaster.
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The controversial new law would allow Texas law enforcement officers and judges to arrest and deport people in the country illegally, powers that have traditionally belonged to the federal government.
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Senate Bill 4, the Texas law that allows local police to arrest people suspected of being in the country illegally, is blocked yet again after a late-night order Tuesday from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
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Implementation of SB 4, a Texas law that allows local and state police officers to arrest people suspected of being in the country illegally, was once again put on hold Monday by the United States Supreme Court.
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President Joe Biden used the term during the address in response to heckling by U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Georgia.
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The United States Supreme Court has put on hold a federal appeals court decision that would have allowed Texas’ controversial immigration-enforcement law, Senate Bill 4, to go into effect as early as this weekend. The Supreme Court’s decision means the law is on hold until at least the middle of next week.
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Former President Donald Trump was also in Texas on Thursday.
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The law would have allowed local and state police to arrest a person who allegedly entered the country illegally. It was scheduled to go into effect but lawsuits filed by the U.S. Justice Department and civil and immigrant rights groups argued in court the legislation.
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President Joe Biden and Donald Trump are both heading to the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas — Biden to Brownsville; Trump to Eagle Pass.