JURIST

APRIL 19, 2024

” The Oklahoma bill largely mimics a similar immigration bill from the Texas Legislature, which was signed into law in December 2023 and has since been embroiled in legal challenges. Iowa also passed a similar law in March.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The Texas Senate declined to discuss House Bill (HB) 4 on Sunday, instead adjourning until Tuesday, the last day of the legislative body’s special session. Since HB 4 passed the Texas House on October 26 and made its way to the Senate, it has drawn considerable scrutiny.

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JURIST

MARCH 19, 2024

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Tuesday blocked enforcement of Texas’s law criminalizing illegal entry into the state from other countries, hours after a divided US Supreme Court allowed the law to go into effect. I would leave that stay in place pending tomorrow’s oral argument on the question.

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HowAppealing

MARCH 3, 2024

“Appeals Court Intervenes in Legal Showdown on the Texas Border; Action by the appeals court was likely to speed up a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court on a wide-ranging Texas immigration enforcement law”: J. Supreme Court on a wide-ranging Texas immigration enforcement law” appeared first on How Appealing.

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HowAppealing

MARCH 11, 2024

“Texas tells Supreme Court its immigration law is key to handling border crisis; The high court faces a Wednesday deadline as it considers whether Texas exceeded its authority by implementing its own migrant deportation infrastructure”: Kelsey Reichmann of Courthouse News Service has this report.

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HowAppealing

MARCH 20, 2024

“Texas Deportation Law Gets Skeptical Reception From Key Judge; Chief judge suggests law infringes on US immigration power; Hearing follows late-night order temporarily blocking law”: Madlin Mekelburg of Bloomberg News has this report.

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HowAppealing

JANUARY 10, 2024

“Texas tells Supreme Court to stay out of border razor wire fight; The Lone Star State accuses the federal government destroying its property under the guise of immigration enforcement”: Kelsey Reichmann of Courthouse News Service has this report. You can access the filing at this link.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

A Texas federal judge ruled Tuesday that the US Congress passed a 2022 $1.7 ” Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton challenged the bill and sought an injunction against two portions of the bill, the PFWA and a sizable appropriation to a federal pilot program that provided case services to immigrants in immigration removal proceedings.

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JURIST

MARCH 19, 2024

The US Supreme Court has lifted a stay that prohibited the enforcement of a Texas law that criminalizes illegal entry into the state from other countries, allowing the law to go into effect. The post US Supreme Court allows Texas law criminalizing illegal entry from abroad to go into effect appeared first on JURIST - News.

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Above The Law

MARCH 19, 2024

Texas may begin rounding up suspected immigrants because the Fifth Circuit pinky swears its over a month-long stay isn't really a stay. The post Supreme Court Decides Texas Can Start Ignoring Supremacy Clause Because… Maybe A ‘Stay’ Isn’t A ‘Stay’ appeared first on Above the Law.

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JURIST

JANUARY 3, 2024

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) sued Texas and Governor Greg Abbott in his official capacity on Wednesday over a state law that criminalizes illegal entry into the border state from anywhere but a port of entry, exerting state jurisdiction over what is usually a federal matter. Last month, Abbott signed SB 4.

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HowAppealing

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

“A Fifth Circuit immigration order lays bare a conservative divide on the appeals court; It’s ‘mad vibes’ judges v. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued late Friday night denying Texas’ emergency motion to stay trial proceedings pending en banc review.

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HowAppealing

MARCH 20, 2024

“Texas’s S.B. 4 immigration enforcement law appears likely to remain on hold for now; Chief Judge Priscilla Richman of the Fifth Circuit, a George W. Bush appointee, was skeptical of Texas’s arguments to enforce the law immediately”: Chris Geidner has this post at his Substack site.

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HowAppealing

MARCH 16, 2022

“Ken Paxton wants Supreme Court reversal on immigration, giving Texas more sway in border fight”: Jasper Scherer of The Houston Chronicle has this report.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

A Texas federal district judge issued a preliminary injunction on Wednesday that ordered Texas to move its floating barrier from the Rio Grande’s main waters to the riverbank. ” Thus, Ezra concluded that the US demonstrated a “substantial likelihood of success” that Texas violated the act. .”

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 26, 2021

citizens are more likely to commit a crime than immigrants, refuting rightwing rhetoric that blames rising immigration for the uptick in crime, according to a study published in Crime & Delinquency. Capturing rates of repeated previous offending, the authors found that non-Texas born U.S. the authors found.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

A US federal appeals court ruled Thursday that Texas can leave the floating barrier in the Rio Grande after a district court ordered the state to remove it on Wednesday. Texas Governor Greg Abbott appealed the order along with an emergency motion to stay the district court’s order earlier on Thursday.

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JURIST

JUNE 3, 2023

Floridians gathered across the state Thursday to protest a recently enacted law that imposes restrictions on undocumented immigrants. In what protesters dubbed, “a day without immigrants,” thousands walked off the job to voice their disapproval of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s approval of Senate Bill (SB) 1718.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 29, 2023

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled on Friday that the doctrine of sovereign immunity bars private individuals from suing Texas Governor Greg Abbott over Executive Order GA-37. The governor shall use the personnel of the Texas Highway Patrol only if the other personnel of the department are unable to cope with the emergency.

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HowAppealing

DECEMBER 21, 2020

“Texas Challenges Legality of DACA in Latest Bid to End the Program; Judge to revisit case over Obama-era program, leaving young immigrants who benefit from its protections in legal limbo”: Michelle Hackman of The Wall Street Journal has this report.

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JURIST

JULY 23, 2022

The US Supreme Court has temporarily blocked a Biden administration immigration policy. In a 5-4 order, the Supreme Court Thursday denied the Biden administration’s application to reinstate an immigration memorandum that would stop deportation unless the non-citizen is a threat to national security, public safety or border security.

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HowAppealing

JUNE 16, 2021

“For immigrants with protected status in Texas, U.S.

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ABA Journal

JANUARY 28, 2021

Texas immigration lawyer Adam A. Malik has sued the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for seizing and retaining his iPhone when he returned to the…

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Chugh LLP

JULY 16, 2021

On Friday, July 16, 2021, Texas federal judge Andrew Hanen ruled that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program violated the Administrative Procedures Act and should be suspended. The Chugh, LLP immigration team will continue to monitor the situation and provide updates as they become available. By: Jacqueline Valle.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 17, 2021

A new Texas law allows migrants to be arrested for trespassing, attracting groups of armed private citizens to Kinney County, where they are now patrolling the border with local officials, stopping the migrants they find, and passing them off to be arrested by law enforcement who support and welcome them, reports the Wall Street Journal.

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JURIST

AUGUST 4, 2023

Authorities recovered one of the bodies, a Mexican national, from buoys recently floated by Texas in an effort to slow border crossings from Mexico. The incidents have renewed attention on the floating barrier, which is now the subject of a lawsuit between the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and the state of Texas.

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JURIST

MARCH 5, 2024

The US Supreme Court temporarily blocked Senate Bill (SB) 4 on Monday, a strict, new Texas immigration law criminalizing various immigration offenses. In it, the applicants alleged that the aim of SB 4 is to regulate immigration, a power the federal government retains exclusive control over.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 22, 2022

Abbott, DPS and the Texas Military Department have fought two dozen public records requests from news organizations that would provide a clearer picture of the operation’s accomplishments. DPS still includes other charges without explaining how they align with the operation’s goal of capturing dangerous criminals.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 21, 2024

Share Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Thursday morning read: U.S.

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Above The Law

JULY 25, 2023

The post US Sues Texas For Blockading Rio Grande To Keep Out Migrants appeared first on Above the Law. TFW you pretend desperate families are a horde of Vikings armed with spears. and fentanyl.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Greg Abbott has ordered law enforcement in the state to step up their investigation on transnational gangs moving drugs and people across the border from Mexico, reports the Texas Tribune.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 19, 2022

Now-retired prosecutor Ralph Petty earned a living at the Midland County District Attorney’s Office in West Texas. As a subsequent ruling by the Texas Court of Appeals finally made clear, the arrangement was not a momentary lapse in judgment or a one-time offense induced under pressure. Wilson will face similar challenges in Texas.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 20, 2024

Trevino and Texas v. Here’s the Wednesday morning read: Texas border enforcement law again blocked in legal whiplash (John Kruzel & Andrew Chung, Reuters) The immigration ruling carries an echo of an earlier one on a Texas abortion law. Share The court will hear oral arguments this morning in Gonzalez v.

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HowAppealing

MAY 20, 2022

“Conservatives fume over tech industry’s ‘shadow docket’ play; The tech platforms’ conservative foes were caught flat-footed by the companies’ rush to the Supreme Court seeking emergency relief from Texas’ social media law”: Brendan Bordelon of Politico has a report that begins, “Progressives outraged (..)

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 4, 2024

Here’s the Thursday morning read: States seek Supreme Court intervention on smog plan split (Sean Reilly, E&E News) Supreme Court’s approval rating ticks up, poll shows (Olivia Alafriz, Politico) Texas immigration controversy rekindles fight over Arizona’s ‘show me your papers’ law (Devan Cole, CNN) Florida man sentenced to prison for threatening (..)

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

A Texas federal court blocked administrative proceedings launched by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) against SpaceX over alleged discriminatory employment practices. The decision, announced on Wednesday, halts the DOJ’s proceedings, pending the resolution of a lawsuit filed by SpaceX in September.

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Law 360

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

SpaceX asked a Texas federal judge this week to pause the U.S. Department of Justice's underlying administrative proceeding alleging the company discriminated against refugees and asylum-seekers in its hiring practices, referencing the U.S. Supreme Court's Axon Enterprise Inc. FTC decision to argue the proceeding is illegitimate.

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