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A federal appeals court blocked Senate Bill 4 from going into effect. The bill could grant local police departments the authority to enforce state immigration policies.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/texas/2024/03/22/481362/texas-law-enforcement-braces-for-sb4-law-in-wake-of-appeals-court-hearing/

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A federal appeals court late Tuesday night stopped a state law allowing Texas police to arrest people suspected of illegally crossing the Texas-Mexico border — hours after the U.S. Supreme Court had allowed it to go into effect.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/border/2024/03/20/481115/texas-new-immigration-law-is-blocked-again/

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Implementation of SB 4, a Texas law that allows local and state police officers to arrest people suspected of being in the country illegally, was once again put on hold Monday by the United States Supreme Court.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/border/2024/03/19/480969/controversial-texas-immigration-law-put-on-hold-again-by-u-s-supreme-court-pending-further-order/

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