Sports commentator Stephen A Smith went nuclear on Texas’ Republican Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday, calling the Gov. a “racist” for his “inhumane” new rules allowing state and local police to arrest illegal aliens in the Lone Star State. Abbott signed SB4 into law on Monday, making illegal entry into Texas a crime and giving police the authority to arrest those who break that new law. “The goal of these laws is to make sure that when they see somebody crossing over the border, as the National Guard see, as...

A new Texas law signed by Gov. Gregg Abbott will permit state officers to arrest anyone suspected of illegally crossing into the United States, as federal authorities reported over 2.4 million southwestern border encounters in fiscal year 2023. Under Senate Bill 4, which takes effect in March, anyone who makes an illegal entry or re-entry into Texas faces penalties from 180 days in jail up to 20 years in prison, according to Reuters. The law — which some critics are calling one of the toughest immigration law in the U.S....

McALLEN, Texas (AP) — How far can a state go to keep migrants out of the U.S.? The answer may soon come out of Texas, where a new law signed by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott this week will allow police to arrest migrants who cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally and give local judges the authority to order them to leave the country. Acting quickly, civil rights groups and a Texas border county filed a lawsuit Tuesday that seeks to stop the measure from taking effect in March, calling it unconstitutional....

Senate Bill 4, recently enacted into law after being signed by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, will give local law enforcement the authority to arrest people suspected of being in the country illegally. However, enforcing the law will be up to each law enforcement department. In Bexar County, Sheriff Javier Salazar isn’t a fan of the new law and questions how it’ll work. “I think this is going to be just a bullet point on someone’s campaign literature in the future. I don’t think any actual thought was given,” said Bexar...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed a sweeping immigration enforcement bill into law yesterday, making illegal immigration a state crime and allowing local judges to issue deportation orders. Once Senate Bill 4 takes effect, Texas law enforcement will be authorized to stop, arrest, and jail migrants—a power that could lead to racial profiling and a costly expansion of policing. S.B. 4 makes it a state crime, ranging from a misdemeanor to a felony, for an undocumented person to enter Texas outside an official port of entry. Law enforcement will be permitted...

Texas is effectively attempting to take greater control of border enforcement, as Gov. Greg Abbott signed a new law Monday criminalizing undocumented crossings. Meanwhile, negotiations on further funding for border security continue in the U.S. Senate. NTD spoke to Andrew Arthur, a resident fellow in law and policy at the Center for Immigration Studies, to parse out the legal and political ramifications of the Texas move. “Texas bears the brunt of the Biden Administration’s border policies,” he said. “The federal government has largely ceded control of the border to cartels...

(Worthy News) – Republican Governor Greg Abbott of Texas has signed a new bill granting police the authority to detain illegal immigrants. This legislation also empowers local judges to order their departure from the country. This move aims to combat the influx of illegal immigration that has overwhelmed the state since the onset of the Biden Administration, challenging the extent to which a state can enforce immigration laws. The Republican governor has approved an additional bill, providing $1.5 billion for the extension of the border wall. This initiative seeks to...

On Monday, Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R-Texas) signed a bill into law making it a state crime for illegal aliens to enter the state, and thus allowing state law enforcement to arrest them, the first such law of its kind in the nation. Breitbart reports that the bill, SB 4, was signed into law in a massive public display at the southern border in Brownsville, Texas. In attendance was Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick (R-Texas), National Border Patrol Council President (NBPC) Brandon Judd, and numerous state lawmakers. The bill, passed during...

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...

Gov. Greg Abbott signed a bill Monday making illegal immigration a state crime. The new law would authorize any Texas law enforcement officer to arrest people they catch crossing the Rio Grande between ports of entry. Abbott also signed a bill designating more than $1 billion for more border barriers.