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AUSTIN (Nexstar) — A new Texas law that allows the state to effectively deport undocumented migrants could test the balance of power between the states and the federal government, challenging years of legal precedent that has reserved the power to police the border to federal authorities. Senate Bill 4 authorizes state judges and police to order migrants back across the Rio Grande — a deportation power reserved for federal agencies like Border Protection and ICE. In 2012, the Supreme Court ruled in Arizona v. U.S. that the federal government’s immigration...