U.S. appeals court keeps block on Texas immigration law

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A federal appeals court panel decided to continue blocking a Texas immigration law from taking effect pending an April 3 hearing on the law’s constitutionality.

A Border Patrol agent speaks with migrants at the southern U.S. border in El Paso on March 20. after a divided appeals court ruling late Tuesday that said the statutes “significantly impair the exercise of discretion by federal immigration officials.”announced by the U.S.

from taking effect. In that ruling, U.S. District Judge David A. Ezra, a Republican appointee in Austin, said the law intruded more into federal powers over immigration than an Arizona immigration law that the Supreme Court partly struck down in 2012.since Biden took office, the highest the Border Patrol has ever recorded.

At least one other lawsuit has been filed against the state law, on behalf of a Texas community organization, La Union del Pueblo Entero , and four unidentified immigrants who allege they are eligible to stay in the United States legally but could be targeted for deportation under Texas’s law.

 

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