#Texas governor Abbott signs law giving state police the power to arrest illegal immigrants.
Here's why this won't work ... Other than the obvious (federal jurisdiction), if local police enforce this their jails quickly will fill up. INS won't come to get them, because it's a state law.
When I was in law enforcement in the 1980s, we didn't detain suspected immigrants for this reason. No place to put them, better things to do with the jail space.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/18/politics/texas-border-bill-abbott/index.html
@WordsmithFL Abbott knows that’s the Feds responsibility, he’s doing that for attention, unless he plans on having DeSantis transport them to other states, he’s a cunning tool, everything he does is to make him relevant and make the Admin look bad
@SupplySgt In the articles I read, local law enforcement raised the question of how do they prove someone is in the country illegally unless they visually observe the person cross the border.
If they profile, e.g. asking a Hispanic person for papers, what happens if the person says no? You have a legal right not to produce identification.
This is going to be a real mess. Hopefully local law enforcement chooses to ignore it.
@WordsmithFL I’m thinking he’s doing it for attention, the RWNJs are furthering the issue (fox) by degrading the immigrants as “bad people” leaving out the reasons like: freedom from oppressive governments south of the border, crime, gang violence drugs etc, they leave out the part of seeing America as: “shining city on a hill” unless he really meant, “Whites only shining city” Abbott is exploiting it for personal/political gain only!