Governor Greg Abbott signed Senate Bill 4 last month. It will take effect in March and allows state and local law enforcement to arrest, jail and prosecute.
Amid concerns about record encounters with migrants at the southern U.S. border, one of the most affected states is trying to take action on its own. But is that legal?
A new border law signed by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) picks a direct fight with federal authorities on a key constitutional question: Who gets to control Texas’s border, which is more than 1200 miles long? To most legal scholars, this is not a question at all: They hold that the authority rests with the…