Meh. Look at it this way: 40% of Texas are hispanic. By all means, start messing with them and showing up in headlines. I'm SURE there aren't any negative consequences if they take that road.dislaxxic wrote: ↑Tue Mar 19, 2024 9:09 pm The Supreme Court Just Gave Texas a Green Light to Harass Every Latino Person in the State
..In the manner of a drunk teenager with a hand on a light switch, the Supreme Court has spent the past few days turning federal immigration law in Texas on and off, on and off, while making mewling noises about whether it was on or off when the party started. In a 6–3 decision along the usual lines on Tuesday afternoon, the Supreme Court allowed S.B. 4—Texas’ stunning usurpation of federal immigration law—to take effect. Through this divided and unreasoned vote, the high court will allow Texas to seize enforcement of immigration powers away from the federal government, a direct violation of a 2012 Supreme Court decision striking down Arizona’s infamous “show me your papers” law. In so doing, the conservative majority has blessed galling chicanery by the Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, which sought to shield Texas’ law from Supreme Court review indefinitely. As two of the dissenters noted, the six justices in the majority have injected “chaos and crisis in immigration enforcement” through oblivious procedural formalism that does not withstand the slightest scrutiny.
As signed into law late last year, S.B. 4 criminalizes unauthorized migration under Texas law, thereby turning unlawful entry and presence in the U.S. into an offense separate and apart from existing federal immigration law. The Texas measure also allows state law enforcement officers to stop and detain anyone they “suspect” of having entered Texas unlawfully, while instructing state courts to disregard any ongoing federal immigration proceedings. It also allows state judges to begin deportation proceedings and permits state magistrate judges to remove migrants back to Mexico as an alternative to continued prosecution. (Those who cannot prove their legal status may be jailed or deported back to Mexico, whether or not they’re Mexican.) This radical revision of immigration law will hinder migrants’ ability to cross safely into the country and seek asylum once here. It will also subject Latinos, including citizens and permanent residents, to heightened suspicion and harassment by law enforcement.
Texas justified S.B. 4 as a necessary exercise of Texas’ constitutional authority to repel an “actual invasion,” an absurd claim with zero basis in law or fact. As Texas Gov. Greg Abbott declared, S.B. 4 embodies Texas’ssingular view that its constitutional authority “is the supreme law of the land and supersedes any federal statutes to the contrary.” All of this, as a federal district court in Texas noted last month, amounts to “nullification of federal law and authority—a notion that is antithetical to the Constitution and has been unequivocally rejected by federal courts since the Civil War.” (Fact check: true.)
And yet shortly after that district court blocked S.B. 4, the 5th Circuit—and of course it was the 5th Circuit—froze its injunction and let Texas enforce the new law from top to bottom. So the Department of Justice, joined by pro-immigration groups, asked SCOTUS for relief. While the full court mulled this request, Justice Samuel Alito kept the law on hold until Tuesday (with a four-minute lapse on Monday afternoon when he let it take effect, apparently by accident, for a short moment). After Tuesday’s order, Texas can begin arresting people suspected of unauthorized presence in the country, interfering with migrants’ ability to seek asylum, and removing residents to Mexico—a sovereign foreign nation that has not actually agreed to take back individuals deemed deportable by Texas.
I also LOVE that the TX Gov signed up his taxpayers to pony up to pay for cops and jails to go after illegal immigrants. Works for me. You want to build jails and blow tax money on this? Okie-dokie.
Or, you could give them all work visas, and collect taxes from ALL of them.
Naaaaah. Why do that, when you can, instead, F with your own people?