Texas Gov. Abbott signed into law bills that pour more money into his three-year effort to deter illegal immigration, creates a state crime for illegally crossing the border from Mexico, and gives Texas law enforcement authority to arrest undocumented immigrants anywhere in the state.
  Texas Gov. Abbott signed into law bills that pour more money into his three-year effort to deter illegal immigration, creates a state crime for illegally crossing the border from Mexico, and gives Texas law enforcement authority to arrest undocumented immigrants anywhere in the state.
  • th3raid0rMA
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    11 months ago

    I was skeptical about it’s local relevancy - here’s likely why they tagged it “local”:

    Texas isn’t the first state to empower its police to pursue undocumented immigrants. In 2010, Arizona lawmakers passed Senate Bill 1070, which made it a state crime for legal immigrants not to carry their immigration papers and required police to investigate the immigration status of any person they come into contact with. In a landmark 2012 case, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that local police didn’t have the authority to arrest someone solely based on their immigration status and said that responsibility falls to the federal government.