The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday let a Republican-backed Texas law take effect allowing state law enforcement authorities to arrest people suspected of crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally, rejecting a request by President Joe Biden’s administration.

The court has a 6-3 conservative majority, and its three liberal justices dissented on Tuesday. The administration had asked the justices to freeze a judicial order allowing the Texas law to take effect while its challenge to the statute proceeds in the lower courts.

The law violates the U.S. Constitution and federal law by interfering with the U.S. government’s power to regulate immigration, the administration has argued.

    • Maggoty@lemmy.world
      5·
      8 months ago

      That’s not the point. If non citizens have no rights then you have no recourse to prove you’re actually a citizen once they declare you’re not a citizen.

      Which is just one reason SCOTUS has consistently ruled that rights extend to everyone in our borders. The other is that many of our rights are actually restrictions on government power. And allowing the government to operate without those restrictions, even just on some people, builds the infrastructure for doing it to citizens.

      Don’t get your face eaten by a leopard.

    • Natanael@slrpnk.net
      3·
      8 months ago

      Fun fact, legal citizens have been deported by ICE before because they didn’t care to check the paperwork correctly