Arizona residents to vote on whether local police can arrest illegal aliens who cross unlawfully



On Tuesday, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled that a proposal that would make crossing the Arizona-Mexico border unlawfully a state crime will appear on the upcoming November ballot for residents.

The Arizona Immigration and Border Law Enforcement Measure, Proposition 314, would allow state and local police officers to arrest and detain illegal aliens who have crossed into the United States in between ports of entry. It would also empower judges to order deportations.

'Like the Texas bill, only stronger.'

Additionally, it would make it a Class 2 felony — punishable by up to 10 years behind bars — to sell fentanyl to an individual that results in their death.

If voters pass the proposal on November 5, the E-Verify program would be required to determine an individual's citizenship status before enrolling in financial aid or public welfare programs. Individuals who provide false information or fraudulent documents to an employer or use them to apply for public benefits could be charged with a Class 6 felony.

Opponents attempted to block the proposal from appearing on the ballot, arguing that it is unrelated to immigration enforcement, the fentanyl problem, and public benefit regulations. However, a lower court rejected those claims.

Critics of the measures also contended that the proposal covers more than one subject, but Arizona Supreme Court Chief Justice Ann A. Scott Timmer disagreed, stating that it conforms to the single-subject rule, the Associated Press reported.

Arizona Proposition 314 is similar to Texas' Senate Bill 4, which was signed into law by Governor Greg Abbott in December but has since been tied up in the courts due to a legal challenge from the federal government. SB4, if allowed to go into effect, would permit state and local law enforcement officers to arrest, detain, prosecute, and deport illegal aliens.

Arizona State Senator Justine Wadsack (R) stated that Proposition 314 “is like the Texas bill, only stronger.”

Since Texas introduced the legislation, and despite the legal challenges from the Biden-Harris administration, several states, including Oklahoma, Iowa, and Louisiana, have attempted to pass similar measures.

The federal government also lodged a lawsuit against Texas for installing concertina wire along the southern border to deter illegal crossings. Abbott stated that Texas has moved forward with installing additional razor wire barriers in Eagle Pass and El Paso.

"Operation Lone Star engineers install more razor wire near Shelby Park," Abbott said. "Texas will continue to hold the line and bolster our border security efforts to protect Texans—and Americans—from the Biden-Harris border crisis."

Meanwhile, Border Patrol agents in the El Paso sector have recently warned about an increase in attacks on agents. From October 2023 through August 9, 2024, the sector reported 66 assaults against Border Patrol officers.

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Iowa enacts law allowing police to arrest, deport some illegal immigrants



Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds (R) signed a bill into law on Wednesday that would allow state police to arrest and deport certain illegal immigrants.

The law, which goes into effect July 1, will make it an aggravated misdemeanor to be in Iowa if the individual has an outstanding deportation order or was previously removed from the country or prohibited from entering the country. Individuals charged with the offense could face up to two years in prison.

The charges are bumped up to a felony offense if the individual’s former deportation order was related to drug crimes, crimes against people, or if they have any felony convictions. Suspects may not be arrested at places of worship, schools, medical facilities, or facilities for sexual assault survivors, the legislation reads.

The Senate File 2340 states that a judge may choose to allow the immigrant to leave the country instead of facing charges.

Reynolds stated, “The Biden administration has failed to enforce our nation’s immigration laws, putting the protection and safety of Iowans at risk.”

“Those who come into our country illegally have broken the law, yet Biden refuses to deport them. This bill gives Iowa law enforcement the power to do what he is unwilling to do: enforce immigration laws already on the books,” Reynolds added.

State Senator Janice Weiner (D) criticized the bill, calling it “a political stunt and a false promise that doesn’t contain the needed resources,” the New York Times reported.

“It’s a gotcha bill,” Weiner claimed.

Mark Stringer, the executive director of the Iowa American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa, also spoke out against the legislation, stating, “The Iowa law enforcement and state judges tasked with authority to carry out this outrageous legislation are not trained in immigration law and have no proper authority to enforce it.”

Stringer claims the new law would encourage “racial profiling and stereotyping” while undermining “public safety and the rule of law.”

“It will consume already strapped state court and law enforcement resources,” he contended.

Stringer argued it is one of the “most extreme, discriminatory, and unconstitutional anti-immigrant bills” in the country.

State Representative Steven Holt (R), who supported the measure, called on states to act.

“Many other states are standing up to protect their sovereignty, and their citizens and Iowa must do the same,” Holt stated.

The legislation is similar to Texas’ Senate Bill 4, which is currently tied up in the court system following a lawsuit from the Biden administration’s Department of Justice.

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Louisiana GOP lawmakers advance bill similar to Texas' that would allow police to arrest, detain illegal immigrants



Louisiana Republican lawmakers advanced legislation on Monday that, if passed, would allow local and state police to arrest and detain illegal migrants, the Associated Press reported.

The Republican-majority state Senate passed Senate Bill 388 in a 28-11 vote with 14 co-authors, according to state Senator Valarie Hodges (R).

In a post on X, Hodges wrote, "Louisiana is one step closer to securing our border and addressing our illegal immigration crisis."

"It is imperative that, WE, as a State, protect our citizens in this time of invasion from the crime, drugs, and human trafficking that come with an open border," she stated in an earlier post.

Hodges told fellow lawmakers, "I know there are some people who have concerns about the bill, but what I'm mostly concerned about is about the people of Louisiana, what it's costing the state and what it's costing us in jobs, crime rate, and safety."

If the bill is passed, illegal migrants detained by local authorities could face up to a year in prison and $4,000 in fines. Those with more than one offense could serve two years in jail and pay $10,000 in fines.

Democratic state Senator Royce Duplessis and other critics of the legislation argued its legality, WVUE-DT reported.

"We just went through an entire crime session, and we are going to do all these things to deal with the issue of crime here in Louisiana, but now we are going to go beyond that and do the job of the federal government," Duplessis stated. "I don't think this bill will solve anything. I think all it's going to do is further a narrative."

The bill now heads to the state House of Representatives for discussion.

SB 388 "creates the crime of unlawful entry or reentry into the state of Louisiana by an alien," the proposed legislation reads.

Hodges and other supporters of the measure argue that the state has the "right to defend our nation."

The proposed bill is similar to Texas' Senate Bill 4, which was slated to take effect in March but is currently facing legal challenges presented by the Biden administration. The White House claims the measure "intrudes into a field that is occupied by the federal government" and "conflicts with various provisions of the [Immigration and Nationality Act]."

If Governor Greg Abbott's (R) office wins the legal battle, state and local law enforcement officers will be granted the authority to arrest, detain, prosecute, and deport illegal migrants.

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Mexico allows millions of illegal aliens to flow northward but says it won't take deportees from Texas



It remains unclear whether the courts will ultimately permit the Lone Star State to assume some of the basic duties the Biden administration appears unwilling or at the very least incapable of doing — namely the enforcement of immigration law amid an unprecedented border crisis.

Regardless of how the battle over Texas' Senate Bill 4 pans out, Mexico underscored Tuesday that when it comes to the tens of millions of foreign nationals who have transited its lands in order to trespass into the U.S., there will be no take-backs.

Background

SB 4, ratified by Gov. Greg Abbott (R) on Dec. 18, was supposed to take effect this month. The law makes illegal entry into Texas a class B misdemeanor and allows for foreign nationals who refuse to leave the country to be charged with a second-degree felony, which carries prison time of up to 20 years.

Under SB 4, illegal aliens found in Texas "at any time" who have previously been convicted of two or more misdemeanors involving drugs, crimes against a person, or both, would be charged with a third-degree felony.

The law also grants local law enforcement officials with the ability to deport illegal aliens.

The Biden administration, which has overseen the unlawful entry of well over one million illegal aliens into the country since October, joined radical leftists groups and a foreign regime in condemning SB 4.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre called SB 4 "an extreme law that will not and does not make the communities in Texas safer."

The Biden Department of Justice sued Texas "to enforce the supremacy of federal law" in early January. The following month, a Texas federal judge placed a preliminary injunction on SB 4, claiming Texas "is unlikely to succeed on the merits."

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's office immediately appealed the ruling to the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, which reversed the ruling. This prompted the Biden administration to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, which temporarily blocked the law.

The Supreme Court allowed SB 4 to go into effect Tuesday, but this proved to be short-lived. Hours later, the federal appeals court let the lower court's earlier injunction stand.

Mexico: Solely an exporter of illegal aliens

Amid this back-and-forth — which University of Texas Austin law professor Steve Vladeck told the Texas Tribune was "indefensibly chaotic" — Mexican authorities chimed in, indicating they would remain an exporter, not an importer, of illegal aliens.

The Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement Tuesday, claiming the Mexican regime "condemns the entry into force of SB4 in Texas, which aims to stop the flow of migrants by criminalizing them, promoting the separation of families, discrimination and racial profiling that threaten the human rights of the migrant community."

Apparently, the ministry did not consider the possibility that migrant families could be reunited and live in Mexico.

The ministry further stated that the Mexican regime "categorically rejects any measure that allows state or local authorities to exercise immigration control, detain and return nationals or foreigners to Mexican territory."

"Mexico will not accept, under any circumstances, repatriations by the State of Texas," claimed the ministry.

Intimating that the border crisis, which it has in many ways exacerbated, is America's alone to deal with, the ministry accused Texas of "generating hostile environments" for millions of residents of Mexican origin and subjecting them to "expressions of hatred, discrimination and racial profiling."

Mexico, which has received billions of dollars in direct U.S. foreign assistance in recent years, further indicated it will attempt to put its thumb on the scale with regards to the Texas case before the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and "provide relevant information on the impact that this law will have on the Mexican and/or Mexican-American community, as well as its effect in U.S.-Mexico relations."

Mexico's top diplomat for North America reiterated the regime's rebuff of Texas' efforts to re-establish its sovereignty, writing, "Our country will not accept repatriations from the state of Texas. The dialogue on immigration matters will continue between the federal governments of [Mexico] and [the U.S.]."

In addition to pushing back against Texas' desperate effort to tackle a fatal and costly problem, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador wants the Biden administration to give legal status to at least five million illegal aliens in the U.S., reported the New York Times.

Obrador also has blasted proposals to build a wall along the southern border as "electoral propaganda."

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Supreme Court extends freeze on Texas law that would allow police to arrest, deport illegal migrants



The United States Supreme Court on Monday extended a freeze on Texas' new immigration law that would allow local police to arrest migrants who enter the country illegally, the New York Post reported.

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito indefinitely extended the temporary hold on Texas' Senate Bill 4 while the court continues to evaluate the measure.

On Monday, Alito's order read, "It is ordered that the stay issued on March 4, 2024, is hereby extended pending further order of the undersigned or of the Court."

NEW: Supreme Court Justice Alito EXTENDED the stay on Texas' SB 4 law "pending further order of the undersigned or of the Court."
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Republican Governor Greg Abbott signed SB4 into law in December. The legislation would allow state and local law enforcement officers to arrest, detain, prosecute, and deport illegal migrants. In January, the Biden administration sued Texas over the law, claiming it "intrudes into a field that is occupied by the federal government" and "conflicts with various provisions of the [Immigration and Nationality Act]."

SB4 was slated to take effect in early March but was previously temporarily halted by the Supreme Court until March 18. The court's latest order places the law on hold indefinitely.

U.S. District Judge David Ezra granted an injunction in February, arguing that the state failed to prove the federal government has "abandoned" the border. He accused Texas officials of confusing "the figurative for the literal."

"Contrary to Texas's position, the record is replete with examples and evidence of the federal government carrying out its immigration duties," he claimed. "Texas may disagree with diplomatic efforts or contest their effectiveness, but it cannot maintain in good faith that those efforts constitute 'abandonment.'"

Texas appealed Ezra's ruling and affirmed its commitment to taking the battle to the Supreme Court.

"Texas will immediately appeal this decision, and we will not back down in our fight to protect our state — and our nation — from President Biden's border crisis," Abbott said at the time. "Texas has the right to defend itself because of President Biden's ongoing failure to fulfill his duty to protect our state from the invasion at our southern border."

The bill's coauthor, Senator Bryan Hughes (R), has stated that he is optimistic the court will ultimately side with Texas.

On Monday, Abbott addressed the court's latest extension of the block on X.

"SCOTUS temporarily halted enforcement of SB 4 but Texas is still using its authority to arrest illegal immigrants for criminal trespass and other violations of law," Abbott wrote. "We continue building the wall, use [National Guard] to erect razor wire barriers to repel migrants & buoys remain in river."

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Texas takes on Biden: Border battle update, key takeaways from the 'Take Our Border Back' convoy



Earlier this year, "Take Our Border Back," a coalition of freedom-loving Americans, formed a multi-state convoy that toured through the country, holding rallies along the journey to bring attention to the Biden administration's "wide open" border policies.

The group was relentlessly smeared by corporate media outlets who accused the concerned citizens of being "far right extremists," even claiming some participants may have ties to "militias." News outlets blasted the coalition for referring to themselves as "the army of God," warning others to stay away from the allegedly dangerous, so-called "Christian nationalists."

Despite the media's sensationalism and the group's concerns that agitators might infiltrate the convoy, the events were peaceful — exactly as its organizers had intended. After initially dominating the headlines, the convoy seemed to fade from the spotlight once it became too difficult for the media to spin the prayerful gatherings as anything menacing.

"The goal is simple: to shed light on the obvious dangers posed by wide open Southern borders," read a January press release from the convoy. "Uniting 'We the People' in our resolute stand to send a PEACEFUL, LAWFUL, and clear message to all city, state, and federal politicians & immigration enforcement officials who are enabling tens of thousands of illegal entrants, criminals and known terrorists from over 160 countries world-wide to cross daily into our country along our southern border."

The convoy started its travels at the end of January in Virginia Beach and wrapped up the tour with three separate rallies on February 3 in Yuma, Arizona, San Diego, California, and Quemadeo, Texas.

Noél Roberts, an organizer for the "Take Our Border Back" event in Yuma, told Blaze News on Thursday that the convoy "went great."

"It went really beyond our expectations, I think, in Texas, California, and Arizona," she said. "We had anticipated potential issues; none of them came to light in any way, shape, or form."

Roberts explained that the convoy's organizers received warnings about potential bad actors seeking to sabotage the events. Safety was a top concern for many Americans who wrote to the group expressing interest in joining up with the convoy on its tour through the southern states.

The Yuma rally pulled in attendees from 30 states and Canada, Roberts noted.

"It definitely brought massive awareness to many who didn't really know what was going on," she told Blaze News. "There are so many millions of people still in America that just do not know what's happening even though it has migrated up into the northern states."

The Glenn Beck Program's head writer and chief researcher, Jason Buttrill, joined the "Take Our Border Back" convoy to investigate the Biden administration's border crisis in the newly released Blaze Originals documentary, "Texas vs. The Feds: How the Elites Use the Border Crisis Against Us."

On the way to Texas, Buttrill spoke with the convoy's organizers and attendees to learn more about what the coalition hoped to accomplish by organizing the large, mobile gathering of freedom lovers.

Craig Hudgins, a convey participant, told Buttrill that the border crisis was an "originating issue" for the group that ultimately fueled many other problems, including jeopardizing election integrity and contributing to human and drug trafficking.

Robert Agee, one of the organizers, refuted the media's inflammatory reporting of the convoy, explaining that its events were more of a "prayer gathering."

"This has been so organic," Agee told Buttrill. "There's nothing more powerful than a group of people coming together in corporate prayer and calling upon the name of the Lord to fight the battle for us."

"I think that frightens them," he stated, referring to the media.

With 85% of migrants who reach the southern border successfully entering the country, Buttrill sought to determine whether anything was being done to secure the open border or if both sides of the political aisle were merely using the situation for their own gain.

"The crisis is being used by Republicans as a photo op, by the Democrats to expand their voting base, and by the media to slander their enemies," Buttrill concluded.

Many of the convoy's attendees who gathered at the Eagle Pass, Texas, rally came out to voice their support for Gov. Greg Abbott (R), who has been in a heated head-to-head battle with the Biden administration ever since the governor moved to empower state law enforcement agents to defend its section of the border.

In October, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued the Biden administration for instructing federal agents to remove and destroy razor wire placed along the state's southern border to deter illegal immigrants from entering the country. Paxton argued that Texas' installation of concertina-wire barriers was an attempt to "fill the breach created by the federal government's indolence." The federal agents' removal of the wire "undermin[ed] Texas's efforts to stem the flow of illegal immigration," the AG claimed in the lawsuit.

The Biden administration's Department of Justice declared that "federal law unambiguously grants Border Patrol agents the authority, without a warrant, to access private land within 25 miles of the international border." The battle has since reached the Supreme Court.

In December, Abbott signed Senate Bill 4 into law, which would allow state and local law enforcement to arrest, detain, prosecute, and even deport illegal migrants. The Biden administration filed a lawsuit against Texas the following month to block the new law from going into effect.

Texas contended that the law is necessary to address the border, which it claimed has been "abandoned" by the Biden administration. The federal government argued that the legislation "intrudes into a field that is occupied by the federal government" and "conflicts with various provisions of the [Immigration and Nationality Act]."

SB4, which was slated to take effect in early March, was temporarily halted by the Supreme Court until March 18. However, Texas state Sen. Bryan Hughes (R), the bill's coauthor, is optimistic that the court will side with the state.

In January, Abbott issued an emergency declaration to seize control of Shelby Park, a 47-acre municipal park in Eagle Pass, in an effort to curb illegal immigration. The governor's unprecedented move initially gained massive media attention, but reporting on the previously privatized land has since quieted.

Buttrill speculated that the park's seizure and the lawsuits may have been nothing more than a political stunt.

"If the Texas seizure of Shelby Park was TRULY meant as an actual deterrent, and not an elaborate photo op, then this would STILL be the biggest story in the country, and it's not even close," Buttrill stated. "But it's incredibly hard to make that case when border traffic, going all the way back to day one of the seizure, had already fallen by a staggering 95%. There's obviously more going on here, and we aren't being told the full story."

Buttrill explained that he does not expect much progress to come out of the legal feud between Texas and the federal government.

"The reason being is that I spoke to people that said the entire narrative is false," he remarked. "They said that everything currently being argued, regarding how the Texas National Guard is defying the Border Patrol, isn't actually what is going on. They said that the relationship between the two is exactly the same as it's been over the past decade. They work together, and continue to do so. I don't see much — if anything — changing, and I suspect this court battle will quietly slip away."

The Biden administration's open border policies have ignited concerns about the swaths of unvetted individuals entering the country.

Kate Monroe, a Marine Corps veteran, told Blaze News that she is concerned Americans do not realize that many of the immigrants crossing the southern border are not "friendly people" seeking asylum.

"There are military-aged men I've seen with my own eyes. That's the lion's share of who I have seen cross the border," stated Monroe, a California congressional candidate. "The average American does not understand the threat level, the terror level, and everything else associated with having an open border."

Border Vets, a coalition of military veterans committed to defending the country, and Monroe have visited California's border to seal gaps in the wall. She noted that the group has received warm welcomes from Border Patrol agents who are frustrated that the Biden administration has tied their hands.

"Most of them want to quit," she added. "They're very disheartened. They can't do their job."

Monroe believes Texas "may end up prevailing" in its legal battle with the federal government but noted that many other states will need to join the fight to ensure the entire border is secure once and for all.

"It's not just places like Texas and California that are facing this migrant crisis," she continued. "We've become a sanctuary country."

Buttrill shared his thoughts about the "Take Our Border Back" convoy after the multi-day, 1,000-mile trip concluded.

"It was encouraging to see the convoy, and their rallies, conducted with ZERO violence. I think most people with conservative values became nervous to make their voices heard after January 6. They feared bad actors, whether they come from inside or outside the government, derailing the entire thing. This proved it CAN still be accomplished, and that's very encouraging," he said.

Buttrill provided some advice for conservative Christian Americans regarding the corporate media's attempts to slander them.

"Christians that have strong political views should ignore the labels that are being thrown at them," he stated. "I don't think they should OWN THEM, like 'Christian Nationalist,' because the government has a history of using labels to justify overreach. Instead, they need to double down on the Constitution. Affirm your faith in God, but also affirm your belief in the U.S. Constitution. That shuts down any label the government or media will try and smear them with. And that's exactly what I saw from the attendees of the Take Our Border Back Convoy."

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White House condemns Texas' criminalization of illegal immigration; other open-border leftists sue



Texas Gov. Greg Abbott rankled the White House and other leftist outfits Monday by ratifying legislation that effectively makes illegal immigration a state crime.

While press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre had some unkind words for Republicans seeking to curb criminality and to protect American sovereignty, the ACLU filed a lawsuit to prevent Senate Bill 4 from going into effect in March.

The law

SB4 would make illegal entry into the Lone Star State a class B misdemeanor as well as allow for foreign nationals who refuse to leave the country to be charged with a second-degree felony, which carries prison time of up to 20 years.

Under the law, which may ultimately go before the Supreme Court for review, illegal aliens found in Texas "at any time" who have previously been convicted of two or more misdemeanors involving drugs, crimes against a person, or both would be charged with a third-degree felony.

"Four years ago, the United States had the fewest illegal border crossings in decades," Abbott said in a statement Monday. "It was because of four policies put in place by the Trump administration that led to such a low number of illegal crossings. President Biden has eliminated all of those policies and done nothing to halt illegal immigration."

Over 6.6 million illegal aliens have illegally crossed the border since President Joe Biden took office.

Abbott noted Tuesday on X, "Texas will continue stepping up until we have a new president who will enforce the law."

Biden White House condemns the law

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre lashed out at Texas and Republicans during Tuesday's press briefing, calling SB4 "an extreme law that will not and does not make the communities in Texas safer. It just doesn't."

"I think to add to that is that it is very much in line with what Republicans — many Republicans like to do or tend to do, which is dema-, de-, de-, demonize immigrants and also dehumanize immigrants," continued Jean-Pierre. "This is part of this. And so, uh, this is not who we are as a country. This is not who we should be as a country. Communities should not, should not be individually targeted and put into harm's way."

The press secretary then suggested that Abbott has previously put illegal aliens who voluntarily steal into the nation in harm's way by installing border defenses and "leaving migrants in the side of the road in the middle of winter."

"This is certainly extreme, as we see it. And it is incredibly unfortunate. But this is what we see from particular Republicans trying to dehumanize a group of people who are coming here or some of them trying to migrate here. And — and they're putting them in harm’s way. They're putting them in harm's way," added Jean-Pierre.

A reporter raised the matter of the ACLU of Texas' lawsuit against Texas over SB4 and pressed Jean-Pierre over whether the Biden Department of Justice will similarly seek to preclude the Lone Star State from doing the work the Biden administration appears unwilling to do.

"So, Department of Justice, they're going to decide whether they're going to file a lawsuit here," said Jean-Pierre. "Certainly, I'm not going to get ahead of that."

The press secretary refused to indicate whether she was concerned that the current conservative-leaning Supreme Court might overrule the court's 2012 ruling in Arizona v. United States and/or give Texas a win over SB4, stating only, "There is precedent. It was struck down. I can't speak for this current Court."

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ACLU sues to axe the law

The ACLU, the ACLU of Texas, and the Texas Civil Rights Project filed a lawsuit Tuesday on behalf of El Paso County and two groups that aid illegal aliens, namely Las Americas and American Gateways.It appears the plaintiffs would prefer to see the ability to clamp down on illegal immigration kept in the hands of those who refuse to wield it.

The lawsuit claims that SB4 violates the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution and usurps federal authority by enabling state and local law enforcement officers to enforce immigration law. Invoking Arizona v. United States, the complaint further stresses that the federal government has exclusive power over immigration.

According to the complaint, SB4 will "frustrate" the groups' ability to work with de facto criminals by sending border-crossers packing or into hiding.

Rochelle Garza, the president of the Texas Civil Rights Project, said in a statement, "SB 4 is unconstitutional and paints a target on the friends & loved ones of all undocumented Texans to be profiled, stopped, or arrested by law enforcement."

The ACLU said in a statement, "We're suing to block Texas from enforcing the most extreme anti-immigrant law in the nation. This unconstitutional law allows Texas judges to deport people and allows police to arrest people over suspicions about immigration status."

If successful in its legal challenge, the ACLU will deliver at least one foreign power a victory.

Blaze News previously reported that Mexican officials are opposed to SB4, noting in a Nov. 15 statement that "the Government of Mexico categorically rejects any measure that allows state or local authorities to detain and return Mexican or foreign nationals to Mexican territory."

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