Appeals Court Reinstates Hold on Texas Immigration Law

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This comes hours after a Supreme Court ruling allowed the Lone Star State to enforce the law.

A federal appeals court issued an order late on March 19 that reinstates a hold blocking Texas from enforcing a law that enables local law enforcement to arrest suspected illegal immigrants.

This decision came from a three-judge panel of the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, voting 2โ€“1 to overturn a previous ruling made by another panel of the same court that granted an administrative stay of the lawโ€™s implementation.

The prior Fifth Circuit ruling had temporarily halted an injunction from a federal district court judge in Austin, Texas, that had blocked Texas from implementing the law. The Austin judgeโ€™s rationale was that such a law might pave the way for other states to enact their own immigration legislation.

Following the March 19 order, the Fifth Circuit will now hear arguments on whether to stay the preliminary injunction pending appeal on March 20, according to the order.

โ€œA majority of the panel has concluded that the administrative stay entered by a motions panel on March 2, 2024, should be lifted,โ€ the unsigned order by the court reads.

Circuit Judge Andrew Oldham dissented from the majority opinion on March 19, advocating for the law to remain enforceable.

He wrote in his dissenting opinion, โ€œI would leave that stay in place pending tomorrowโ€™s oral argument on the question.โ€

This came hours after the U.S. Supreme Courtโ€™s conservative majority rejected an emergency request from the Biden administration to review the administrative stay ordered by the Fifth Circuitโ€™s prior panel.

The Department of Justice argued that the law is a clear violation of the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution and that states do not have the power to enforce immigration laws. The law would cause chaos in immigration law, it argued.

In a win for Texas, the Supreme Court issued an order earlier on March 19 that effectively enabled the law, known as SB4, to be enforced while lower courts deliberated.

The Supreme Court did not provide any reasons for the decision in its order, as is typical in emergency appeals. The decision passed on to the appeals court, and they issued a ruling on the evening of March 19.

Byย Caden Pearson

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