EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) -- El Paso County Sheriff Richard Wiles held a press conference Thursday morning, to speak on Senate Bill 4. That legislation would allow state and local law enforcement the authority to arrest migrants who have crossed into the country illegally. It would also making illegally entering Texas from another country a state crime. It would also state judges to the authority to order a person to return to their home country. The bill passed through the Texas House of Representatives on Tuesday, and will head to...

According to CNN, Texas is going criminalize Illegal entry into the state, even though the Constitution recognizes no such offense. Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is expected to sign a bill that would make it a new state crime for entering Texas illegally and gives local law enforcement the power to arrest and order migrants to leave the United States, an extraordinary step in the hard-fought legal battle between the state and the federal government over its efforts to curtail illegal immigration. The bill, SB4, which gives law enforcement the...

Two bills passed in the Texas House of Representatives on Tuesday night aim to allocate more than $1.5 billion for additional border security measures and to make it a state crime to enter the country illegally from Mexico. Senate Bill 3 , which was filed by state Sen. Joan Huffman, a Houston Republican, calls for $1.54 billion to be spent on more border barriers and to fund more state troopers to patrol a housing development near Houston called Colony Ridge. Senate Bill 4 , which was filed by state Sen....

Texas state legislators this week approved a bill to allow the state to arrest, imprison, and possibly deport migrants who illegally enter the United States. The bill makes it a state crime for anyone without legal authorization to be in the U.S. to enter from Mexico in between legal ports of entry. It would also allow state and local police to arrest people who are suspected of violating this law, and local judges could then order those people to be deported. The Texas House passed the bill on Tuesday, and...

A bill currently heading to Governor Greg Abbott’s (R) desk would allow Texas to arrest and deport certain illegal migrants. The bill, Senate Bill 4, would authorize all police in Texas to arrest migrants suspected of crossing the border illegally. The bill makes entering the country illegally a new state misdemeanor punishable by up to two years. A judge could then order migrants who were arrested to be deported. Abbott is expected to sign the bill, which would be one of the nation’s strictest immigration laws if it goes into...