Washington/Prensa Latina
A United States federal appeals court extended the blockade of the anti-immigrant and controversial Law SB4 that would empower Texas authorities to arrest and even deport undocumented migrants, media outlets highlight today.
The three judges of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals based in New Orleans voted on the future of a measure that has received criticism of all colors.
According to reports, two of the magistrates last night supported the idea of continuing to stop the entry into force of the ordinance and one of them supported the criterion of putting it into operation.
It is possible that the implementation of SB4 violates the United States Constitution, according to Priscilla Richman, the court’s chief judge, who was supported by the vote of her colleague Irma Carrillo.
“For nearly 150 years, the Supreme Court has held that the power to control immigration (the entry, admission and removal of noncitizens) is exclusively a federal power,” Richman said.
But Judge Andrew Oldham, who voted against it, said that “the State will always be defenseless: Texas can do nothing because Congress apparently did everything, but the lack of federal enforcement means that Congress’s everything is nothing.”
The panel is expected to meet again on April 3 to hear arguments on whether or not to confirm the court order.
Either way, Texas Governor Greg Abbott remains firm that he will persist in implementing measures to secure the southern border.
“The blockade has remained, but even without SB4, Texas has the legal authority to arrest people who cross the barbed wire at our borders,” warned the Republican.
“We are going,” he said, “to continue using our authority” and made it clear that they will arrest “people who cross the border illegally.”
He also ratified his decision to strengthen the barriers on the line that separates the United States and Mexico, maintain the buoys on the Rio Grande River and build the border wall.
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