What to know about SB 4, the Texas immigration law in the courts now. Updated March 20, 2024 2:47 PM ET Originally published March 20, 2024 1:06 PM ET. Becky Sullivan Enlarge this image.

The controversial new law would allow Texas law enforcement officers and judges to arrest and deport people in the country illegally, powers that have traditionally belonged to the federal government.

Texas immigration law: Here’s what to know about SB 4. ... Texas lawmakers in 2023 approved Senate Bill 4, which allows Texas police to arrest people for illegally crossing the Mexico border.

In arguing that Texas should not be preempted from enforcing SB 4, Texas Solicitor General Aaron Nielson defended the state's immigration policy as being complementary to federal immigration law.

The Biden administration and immigrant rights organizations, have sued Texas, claiming SB 4 is unconstitutional because it interferes with federal immigration laws, a role federal courts have said ...

The political firecracker known as SB-4 — a Texas law that would give state-level officials the power to enforce U.S. immigration law — is, ultimately, doomed.

However, in dissenting with the 5th Circuit panel's 2-1 decision, Judge Andrew Oldham said he would have allowed SB 4 to take effect, arguing that not all elements of the Texas immigration policy ...

Trump's Justice Dept. may drop the U.S. challenge to SB 4, but other plaintiffs have vowed to push forward against Texas' immigration law.

Critics of SB 4 have cast the law as Texas' attempt to take over those law enforcement capabilities, a notion that Nielson disputed at Wednesday's hearing. "That's really not true," he told the panel.

A whirlwind of court orders on Tuesday briefly allowed, then blocked again, a controversial new immigration law in Texas that would allow state and local law enforcement to arrest and deport people ...

Critics of SB 4 have cast the law as Texas' attempt to take over those law enforcement capabilities, a notion that Nielson disputed at Wednesday's hearing. "That's really not true," he told the panel.

The controversial new law would allow Texas law enforcement officers and judges to arrest and deport people in the country illegally, powers that have traditionally belonged to the federal government.