WASHINGTON D C (WBAP/KLIF) – The U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday afternoon gave the go ahead to Texas Senate Bill 4, which allows Texas police officers to arrest anyone suspected of entering the country illegally, and state judges to order deportations. This, despite Justice Department challenges to efforts by Texas Governor Greg Abbott, which continues, in federal courts, to assert domain on all matters and actions immigration belong soley to the federal government.
Texas asserts the federal government is not doing enough to stem illegal immigration, and Abbott continues to push the issue onto the front lines of politics with a series of anti-immigration moves including SB4 and takeovers of a city park in Eagle Pass, on the Texas border with Mexico, in addition to other actions, to make the point. Additional expenditures of the Abbott efforts, dubbed “Operation Lone Star”, topping at an estimated 10-billion dollars to date, include large, slippery moving balls stretched across the middle of the Rio Grande and razor wire along the Texas side of the river, intended to deter migrants.
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