Texas Wavers on Immigrant Arrests While Defending Deportations

Texas made a case for narrowing a sweeping immigration law to allow for the removal, but no longer the arrest, of non-citizens who enter the country illegally, at Fifth Circuit oral arguments Wednesday.

During the arguments on a district court’s preliminary injunction, Texas Solicitor General Aaron Nielson urged the court to keep the removal provision if it decides the rest of the law violates the federal government’s sole authority to set immigration policy.

“To be fair maybe Texas went too far,” Nielson acknowledged.

Later he added: “The answer isn’t to enjoin the entire statute. The answer is to sever the ...