Appeals court to allow Texas immigration law that criminalizes illegal migrant crossings

An appeals court on Saturday reversed a decrease court’s choice to block Texas from imposing a brand new state law that would make illegal immigration a state crime.

The fifth Circuit Court of Appeals went in opposition to U.S. District Judge David A. Ezra’s order to block Texas’ Senate Bill 4 but in addition put its personal ruling on maintain for seven days ought to the Biden administration need to attraction to the Supreme Court.

The new law permits state authorities to arrest and jail illegal immigrants and would give state judges the facility to order deportations. 

The law was initially set to go into impact on March 5 however will now be placed on maintain till March 9 except the Supreme Court intervenes.

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Under Texas’ Senate Bill 4, state authorities might arrest and jail illegal immigrants and allow state judges to order deportations. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Ezra, who presides within the Western District of Texas, dominated final week that states “may not exercise immigration enforcement power except as authorized by the federal government.”

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, nonetheless, maintained that the state “has the right to defend itself” from the invasion at our southern border.”

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“Texas will instantly attraction this choice, and we won’t again down in our combat to defend our state – and our nation – from President Biden’s border disaster,” Abbott said in a statement at the time.

Asylum seekers cross the Rio Grande from Mexico into the United States on Sept. 30, 2023, in Eagle Pass, Texas. (John Moore/Getty Images)

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The law was considered one of a number of strikes by Texas to curb the move of migrants into the state. Abbott has repeatedly accused the Biden administration of failing to implement immigration legal guidelines amid report numbers of migrant entries and encounters on the southern border. 

Fox News’ Louis Casiano contributed to this report.