A Texas law making illegal border crossing a state crime punishable by arrest and deportation is once again suspended after the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued an order reinstating a previous hold.
The Supreme Court extended a stay on the Texas law, SB4, indefinitely on Monday, pending further deliberation. Conservative justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett intervened on Tuesday, however, allowing SB4 to go into effect on grounds the stay had been administrative rather than a “stay pending appeal.”
Now, the Fifth Circuit has issued a new stay, which came late on the same day the SCOTUS justices issued their ruling.
The Joe Biden regime has been fighting SB4 — passed as a result of its refusal to control immigration — tooth and nail, arguing the power to secure the border (or not) belongs to the federal government alone.
The Mexican government reacted to the SCOTUS ruling with fury, saying it “condemns the enforcement of the SB4 law in Texas, which aims to stop the flow of migrants through criminalization.”
They claimed SB4 would contribute “to family separation, discrimination and racial profiling that go against the human rights of the migrant community.” They vowed they would not accept any migrants Texas attempted to deport back into Mexico.