‘Texas, we’ll see you in court’: migrant law sparks outcry and opposition

A person walks along a road shadowed by the steel columns of the US-Mexico border wall. Photograph: Gregory Bull/AP

As a group of Texas and Hispanic Democrats demanded the US attorney general block what they called “the most extreme anti-immigrant state bill in the United States”, signed by the Texas governor, Greg Abbott, on Monday, the president of Mexico and the American Civil Liberties Union also vowed to fight the law.

“Texas, we’ll see you in court,” the ACLU said.