Mexico tells court Texas immigration law is threat to its ‘sovereign’ rights

The Mexican authorities has claimed in a court submitting {that a} Texas anti-illegal immigration law at present being challenged by the Biden administration would, if enacted, impinge on Mexico’s “sovereign right” to decide who enters the nation.

Mexico filed an amicus temporary final week in help of the Biden administration’s lawsuit in opposition to Texas’ S.B. 4 — an anti-illegal immigration law that will permit police to arrest unlawful immigrants and permit state judges to organize them deported.

The law was signed by Gov. Greg Abbott in December however has been on maintain due to a problem from the Biden administration, which says the law is unconstitutional, hurts worldwide relations and impedes upon the federal authorities’s enforcement of immigration law. 

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President of Mexico Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador speaks through the day by day briefing at Palacio Nacional on March 12, 2024 in Mexico City, Mexico.  (Hector Vivas/Getty Images)

Texas has argued that the law is needed due to the Biden administration’s alleged failure to safe the southern border and implement immigration law.

In its temporary, Mexico argues that the law going into impact creates a “substantial tension” on U.S.-Mexico relations, together with commerce, and will additionally lead to discrimination in opposition to Mexican nationals. 

“Mexico is deeply concerned that SB 4 will be applied in a discriminatory manner and fears that its enforcement will lead to improper harassment, detention, removal, and criminalization of Mexican citizens and individuals of Latino appearance,” the temporary reads.

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Migrants try to cross Mexico-United States border regardless of heightened safety measures, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico on February 1, 2024.  (David Peinado/Anadolu by way of Getty Images)

However, it additionally expresses concern that the law would consequence within the elimination of unlawful immigrants to Mexico “regardless of their nationality and without regard for Mexico’s own policies regarding entry into its territory or the noncitizens’ desire to enter Mexico.”  

“Mexico has publicly expressed its opposition to SB 4, expressly noting that that enforcement of SB 4 would interfere with Mexico’s sovereign right to determine who enters its territory.,” the temporary says.

The Mexican authorities then requested that the Fifth Circuit Court preserve the injunction on the law going into place.

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The authorized battle see-sawed final week because the law was briefly allowed to go into impact by the Supreme Court earlier than being kicked again down to the Fifth Circuit, which blocked it pending arguments on the deserves.

Abbott has mentioned that his state can nonetheless use trespassing legal guidelines to cease immigrants who enter the U.S. illegally, simply as February border numbers have been introduced displaying that there was a document variety of encounters for the month.

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“Even without S.B. 4, Texas has the legal authority to arrest people coming across the razor wire barriers on our border, and we will continue to use our arrest authority and arrest people coming across the border illegally,” Gov. Abbott mentioned Wednesday.