Texas Migrant Deportation Law Remains Blocked by Fifth Circuit

A Texas immigration law authorizing the arrest and deportation of undocumented migrants must stay blocked even after the Trump administration ended a Biden-era challenge to it, a federal appeals court ruled.

By a split decision, a panel majority on the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit said the law infringes on the federal government’s sole “power to control the entry and removal of aliens.”

The reasoning squares with longstanding arguments against the law, known as SB 4, which gives Texas officials unprecedented power to act independently of federal officials and arrest and remove people suspected of being in ...