Justice Department sues Texas over law that would let police arrest migrants who enter US illegally..DISCUSS

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Justice Department sues Texas over law that would let police arrest migrants who enter US illegally..DISCUSS​

 

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Texas troops clash with migrants over barbed-wire breach at US border​

Wire barrier installed under governor’s border security program breached as migrants say they were forcefully pushed back

Wire barrier installed under governor’s border security program breached as migrants say they were forcefully pushed back A group of migrants clashed with Texas national guard troops over a breach of barbed wire fencing in El Paso on Thursday as they waited to turn themselves in to federal border agents – underscoring the power struggle between the state and federal government over immigration law enforcement. Video posted on social media showed migrants dragging away a temporary concertina wire barrier which was installed as part of Texas governor Greg Abbott’s controversial Operation Lone Star publicly-funded state border security program.

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New video shows migrants rushing portion of border fence

New video shows migrants rushing a portion of the US border fence in El Paso, Texas. The circumstances that led to the incident are unclear. CNN's Ed Lavandera reports from the scene.

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Video catches migrant cutting Texas border fence before National Guard troops stop illegal crossers​

A migrant with bolt cutters snipped a wire border fence Sunday, then led dozens of migrants through the hole — only to be turned back to Mexico by National Guard troops. The Post observed as the migrants pulled fencing away and pushed through the state’s concertina-wire barrier near a gate in the wall, entering the US illegally, near El Paso, Texas. Footage of the incident taken by The Post showed guardsmen appearing and blocking the migrants, and directing them away from Gate 45, which is not a legal port of entry, and back to Mexican territory. The incident comes days after another encounter a few miles away at Gate 36 in the border — where more than 100 people bum-rushedTexas National Guard soldiers last Thursday.

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US court keeps Texas border security law on hold in win for Biden​

A U.S. appeals court has kept on hold a Republican-backed Texas law that would let state authorities arrest and prosecute people suspected of illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border - a statute that President Joe Bidens administration has argued intrudes on the authority of the federal government.
In a 2-1 ruling late on Tuesday, a panel of the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied a request by Texas to let the law take effect while the state's appeal of a judge's ruling blocking it plays out.

The law, formally called S.B. 4, has become a flashpoint in a broader battle between Texas and the Biden administration over border security and immigration. It would make it a crime to illegally enter or re-enter Texas from a foreign country and would empower state judges to order that violators leave the United States, with prison sentences up to 20 years for those who refuse to comply. The 5th Circuit panel's action was the latest of three rapid-fire ruling on the status of the law. The Supreme Court last week had let it take effect, but the 5th Circuit panel hours later restored U.S. District Judge David Ezra's February injunction blocking enforcement.

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Migrants try to cut through razor wire at Texas border, video shows​

Four face charges after trying to cut through border barrier
Texas cracking down on property destruction, illegal entry
Arrests come after large group rushed National Guard troops

Four migrants have been arrested and charged with trying to cut through concertina wire installed along the Texas-Mexico border. The Texas Department of Public Safety announced the arrests in a post on X, which included video of the alleged act that took place Friday near Gate 36 in El Paso. “Destroying state property is a crime — those responsible will be arrested & charged,” the department said. The arrest comes after migrants tore down other razor fencing and rushed National Guard troops last month. More than 200 people have been arrested. Following the March 21 incident that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott called a border riot, the state has beefed up reinforcements on the El Paso stretch of the border. Texas has warned more arrests will come for anyone caught cutting fences.

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Many Texas prisons don't have air conditioning. This lawsuit seeks to change that.​

Bernie Tiede, arguably Texas' most famous living convicted murderer, is leading a lawsuit to force the state to air condition irs ptisons. County jails in Texas must be kept between 65 and 85 degrees but state prisons don't have to be air conditioned. That amounts to cruel and unusual punishment, according to Tiede and a coalition of lawyers and advocacy groups. Their expanded lawsuit, announced Monday, accuses prison leaders of hiding evidence that inmates have died due to the extreme heat and demands the A/C be installed in the dozens of state-run prisons that currently lack it. Tiede, a mortician whose murder of an 81-year-old widow was immortalized in Richard Linklaters' dark comedy "Barne.was moved to after he sued the state in federal court. This legal challenge expands on his previous suit. The advocacy groups on the amended complaint include Texas Prisons Community Advocates, Build Up, Inc., Texas Citizens United for Rehabilitation of Errants and the Coalition for Texans with Disabilities. “Letting people suffer or die in prisons because of dangerous temperatures disregards our basic humanity,” Dean William, a former leader of the Colorado and Alaska prison systems, said in a press release released Monday. State law does not require prisons to have A/C.

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