Civil Rights Organizations Sue to Stop Texas Immigration Law that Would Allow Police to Arrest People Suspected of Illegally Crossing Border

A group of civil rights organizations on Monday filed a new lawsuit seeking to stop parts of the law that would let Texas police arrest people suspected of illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.

The law can go into effect next week after a federal appeals court lifted a lower court ruling that had kept it paused for years.

Senate Bill 4, as the law is known, created a state-level crime for entering the country without authorization and created pathways for state authorities to remove such people from the country if convicted.

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