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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Edward Helmore

Texas concedes law allowing judges to deport migrants may have gone ‘too far’

A group of people standing in front of an iron barrier
People wait to be processed in El Paso, Texas, after crossing the Rio Grande river on 2 April 2024. Photograph: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

The state of Texas has conceded that it may have gone “too far” in passing a law last year that made entering the state illegally a crime and allowing state judges to order undocumented people to be deported.

The admission that Texas’s SB4 may have gone beyond the limitations of state laws, which typically bow to federal law on immigration matters, came at a hearing on Wednesday before the fifth US circuit court of appeals.

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