The Texas legislature approved the new law, permitting state judges to deport people — even while seeking asylum — last week. A group of judges have sent a letter urging President Joe Biden to intervene.
They ask the White House block the law, arguing that the bill "is as unprecedented as Texas trying to declare its own wars."
"We are writing to express our profound concern over legislation recently passed by the Texas legislature that makes local communities less safe, interferes with federal immigration enforcement, threatens our relationships with other nations and does not get us any closer to sound immigration policy," the letter reads.
Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo posted the entirety of the letter on X.
The letter went on to cite the 2012 Supreme Court Case, Arizona v. United States as precedent. Arizona determined that state immigration enforcement can't be at odds with federal immigration law.
The Texas House of Representatives approved the law last week. The legislation earmarks more than $1.5 billion to build border barriers and makes it a crime to illegally cross the Texas-Mexico border.
Gov. Abbott celebrated the bill in a post on X, saying "Texas continues to hold the line amid President Biden's border crisis."
In a separate post, he congratulated state Sen. Charles Perry (R-Lubbock) and Rep. David Spiller (R-Jacksboro) on what he called "historic progress," on border security.
"I look forward to signing Senate Bill 4, which creates penalties for illegal entry into Texas and authorizes the removal of illegal immigrants apprehended at the border," Abbott said in a statement.
Psst---
the governor has already said that the federal government has failed in its constitutional duties, and so he has assumed the responsibilities of the federal government.
Specifically, he is going to enforce the border and sign treaties with other nations to ensure border security.
That was, in effect, a notice of secession from the US.
The governor should tell the federal government to go find a state that will welcome them, because they are not welcome in Texas anymore.
I'm guessing those judges are democraps appointed by Obama.
No, she was elected through a fraudulent election in Harris county. We call the members of the county commissioners court judges. She's not really a judge in the typical sense. She knows nothing of the law or the constitution. She represents the tip of the spear of Soros agenda in Texas.
Lina Hidalgo? Seriously?
Here's some of this greatest hits of this corrupt nutbucket:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/?s=Lina+Hidalgo
She's a major criminal.
All the judges need to go. Very simple, either you have a state or your don't. But judges don't care, they live in gated communities along with all of the electeds while everyone else is forced to deal with the insanity they have created.
Anything Lina Hidalgo complains about is something we should put into affect ASAP. She is an agent of the deep state and will hopefully be in jail very soon.
Here we go again, the judicial branch meddling with and attempting to invade State legislative jurisdiction. The Texas Legislature makes the laws and the judges must enforce those laws not the other way around. This new Texas legislation will only reinforce the Federal laws on illegal immigration that already exist. These are obviously Democrat or RINO judges that basically want illegal immigration to continue. These crooked judges which are supposed to enforce existing law are asking to BREAK THE LAW, which tells me that these crooked judges must be impeached and jailed.
Hard to believe how corrupt our judicial system is.
Is it, really? After all these years watching miscarriage of justice compounding on itself?
We celebrate when the Supreme Court finally makes a ruling that is congruent with the constitution, because it is so rare that a court ever does something right in the US.
Just so everyone understands, the chief executives of the 254 Texas counties are called County Judges, who, along with four County Commissioners, perform the executive function for each County. They are not part of the Judical branch of state government. There is some history as to why they are called judges. I live in Texas