The U.S. Department of Justice gave Texas a deadline of Wednesday to refrain from enforcing Senate Bill 4, or it will file suit saying it's unconstitutional.
A political fight four decades in the making is coming to a head in the New Year. House Republicans are vowing to play hard ball to ensure Trump era immigration policies are part of a deal to secure the border.
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.
homeland security officials. republicans say the border is still in crisis, and they, alongside red state governors are trying to force the issue. today house speaker mike johnson is in eagle pass, texas, calling on president biden to do more. joining us now, nbc news capitol hill reporter ryan nobles and from eagle pass, texas, punch bowl cofounder jake sherman, also an msnbc political contributor. jake, you re in eagle pass, tell us what you re seeing and what you expect to hear from mike johnson? not a whole lot of migrants at this point. but the speaker of the house is on a delegation tour at the border with a whole host of house republicans, 50 something house republicans have come down here, and the large question is, katy, how does this translate into the legislative morass congress finds itself in later this month. the senate is trying to get a border dual, couple with ukraine funding, israel funding, and taiwan, and does the border seep
solve the problem on the border. so schumer said this, after telling us he believes the negotiators are making real progress, and that democrats have given on a lot of these border policy issues that in the past they wouldn t be willing to give on because they believe that the situation does need to be addressed and because this package is coupled with funding for ukraine and funding for israel. but the simple fact of the matter here, katy, is, if they can come up with a bill that gets 60 votes, there s no guarantee it can get through the house because house republicans in particular have wanted a whole suite of policy proposals that the biden administration considers dead on arrival. jake, weigh in on that. i know you had something to say. ryan s exactly right. tony gonzalez whose district this is, who represents the largestwath of the texas-mexico border told me this yesterday for this morning s edition, whatever the senator comes up with, he s going to