{"id":868,"date":"2026-05-30T19:06:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T19:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=868"},"modified":"2026-05-30T19:06:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T19:06:26","slug":"federal-appeals-court-allows-red-state-to-enforce-migrant-arrest-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=868","title":{"rendered":"Federal Appeals Court Allows Red State To Enforce Migrant Arrest Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><!-- \/10519169\/dailycaller_incontent_1 --> <\/p>\n<p>Texas police can start arresting people suspected of crossing the border illegally after a federal appeals court on Friday cleared the way for the state to enforce a contested immigration statute.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=866\">Non-English Speaking Bus Driver Involved In Crash That Killed 5, Transportation Sec Duffy Says<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The order came from a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, which sided with Texas over a lower court injunction that had blocked sections of Senate Bill 4, FOX 7 Austin reported. Judge Leslie Southwick was the lone dissenter and would have rejected the state\u2019s motion. The brief order provided no detailed reasoning beyond pausing the prior block.<\/p>\n<p>One reactivated provision treats reentry into the U.S. as a state offense even for people now holding green cards or other lawful federal status. Another grants state magistrates authority to issue removal orders, with a separate offense for refusing to obey them. A fourth requires those magistrates to continue prosecution even when a defendant has a pending federal immigration case, according to the outlet. <strong>(RELATED: Federal Appeals Court Blocks Trump\u2019s Asylum Ban At Southern Border)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Friday ruling paused a May 14 preliminary injunction from U.S. District Court Judge David Alan Ezra, who had sided with two unnamed Honduran immigrants leading a class-action suit against SB 4, Courthouse News Service reported. Ezra\u2019s 78-page  determined the plaintiffs faced likely arrest and possible removal once the reentry provisions took force. His order blocked only those reentry sections, allowing the rest of the statute to begin enforcement May 15.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=864\">Ohio Axes Data Center Tax Break After Billion-Dollar Forecasting Error<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <!-- \/10519169\/dailycaller_incontent_2 --> <\/p>\n<p>Texas Gov. Greg Abbott praised the appeals court\u2019s ruling in a post to X, framing it as a win for border security. \u201cWe will keep fighting in the courts, working with President Trump, and doing everything necessary to secure our border and protect Texans,\u201d Abbott wrote on the platform.<\/p>\n<p>The American Civil Liberties Union of Texas, the national ACLU and the Texas Civil Rights Project filed the May 4 class-action suit that produced Ezra\u2019s now-stayed order, contending the law strips the federal government of its exclusive authority over immigration enforcement, according to a press release from the ACLU of Texas. The coalition has described SB 4 as among the harshest immigration statutes any state legislature has enacted.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=862\">Prison Agency Turned Tax-Funded Rehab Program Into Unaccountable Slush Fund<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal appeals court on Friday cleared Texas to enforce Senate Bill 4, allowing state police to arrest people suspected of crossing the border illegally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1275,110,1276],"class_list":["post-868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting","tag-immigration-law","tag-texas","tag-u-s-court-of-appeals"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Federal Appeals Court Allows Red State To Enforce Migrant Arrest Law - 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