Blocked: Last year, Texas Senate Bill (S.B.) 4—which would've allowed Texas police to arrest those who illegally cross the southern border—passed. Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an order that blocks the enforcement of the law "until justices decide whether Texas should be allowed to enforce it before federal court challenges are resolved," reports The Texas Tribune. "Justice Samuel Alito did not put a deadline on the temporary order blocking the law and did not indicate when the high court would decide whether to keep the law from being enforced during ongoing litigation."
S.B. 4 "allows police to question and arrest anyone they believe entered Texas through Mexico illegally and is currently without legal immigration status," per the Tribune. It was not intended to be a means by which law enforcement can go after longtime residents of the U.S. who once crossed illegally (and statutes of limitations further protect such people), but rather a means of detaining recent border-crossers.
