ER Editor: Update – March 20 – this has just been reversed. See —
Appeals Court Reinstates Hold On Texas Immigration Law
A federal appeals court issued an order late on Tuesday that reinstates a hold blocking Texas from enforcing a law that enables local law enforcement to arrest suspected illegal immigrants.
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In Blow To Biden, Supreme Court Allows Texas To Start Arresting And Deporting Illegal Aliens
The Supreme Court on Tuesday dealt a blow to the Biden administration’s attempts to keep the US border open – allowing Texas to enforce a new law giving local police the power to arrest migrants.
With three liberal justices dissenting, the conservative-majority court rejected an emergency request by the Biden administration, which claimed that states have no authority to legislate on immigration.
The ruling means that Texas’ law can go into effect while litigation continues in lower courts.
The law, SB4, allows police to arrest migrants who illegally cross into the United States from Mexico, and imposes criminal penalties. It also empowers judges to deport people to Mexico.
🚨🚨 HUGE WIN: Texas has defeated the Biden Administration’s and ACLU’s emergency motions at the Supreme Court. Our immigration law, SB 4, is now in effect. As always, it’s my honor to defend Texas and its sovereignty, and to lead us to victory in court.
— Attorney General Ken Paxton (@KenPaxtonTX) March 19, 2024
“Texas is the nation’s first-line defense against transnational violence and has been forced to deal with the deadly consequences of the federal government’s inability or unwillingness to protect the border,” Texas argued in court papers.
The dispute is the latest clash between the Biden administration and Texas over immigration enforcement on the U.S.-Mexico border.
A federal judge blocked the law after the Biden administration sued, but the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said in a brief order that it could go into effect March 10 if the Supreme Court declined to intervene.
On March 4, Justice Samuel Alito issued a temporary freeze on the law to give the Supreme Court time to consider the federal government’s request. –NBC News
Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar said in court filings that Texas’ law is “flatly inconsistent” with Supreme Court precedent dating back 100 years.
“Those decisions recognize that the authority to admit and remove noncitizens is a core responsibility of the national government, and that where Congress has enacted a law addressing those issues, state law is preempted,” she said, adding that the appeals court did not explain its reasoning for allowing the law to go into effect.
And what about the GDP?
The new ruling may put a crimp in the Biden administration’s seeming plan to flood the country with low-wage labor in an effort to boost GDP, which Democrats now insist would benefit to the tune of $7 trillion thanks to illegal immigrants – who are allowed to work indefinitely whilst waiting for the US immigration system to process their asylum claims.
Recall that 10 million illegals have entered the US under Biden, while virtually all of the job gains under Biden have gone to foreign-born workers, looks like their ‘great replacement’ theory scheme has just suffered a swift kick to the huevos.
“This unprecedented surge in illegal immigration isn’t an accident. It is the result of deliberate policy choices by the Biden administration,” said Eric Ruark, Director of Research for Numbers USA, a nonprofit that advocates for immigration restrictions.
Looks like Krugman is going to have to go back to the drawing board. Maybe he can get back to work finding out who ‘hacked’ child porn onto his computer.
Some evidence to that effect: relative wages of foreign-born workers have fallen a bit relative to native-born since the pandemic. That’s OK — they gain a lot from coming here, and their presence allows bigger gains for the native born 5/ pic.twitter.com/kCFJ5kidmh
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) February 2, 2024
Did the Supreme Court just disrupt ‘the plan’?
This is actually happening!
pic.twitter.com/qeNBu3S1mF— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 19, 2024
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