This is the bill that would allow Texas police to detain immigrants and deport them to Mexico

A controversial bill is being developed in Texas that would allow police to detain immigrants who cross the border illegally and take them to Mexico for subsequent deportation, Noticias Telemundo reported.

That would be a new “competency” of the Texas police, which until now has been in the hands of federal authorities, the television network noted.

On Friday, October 27, 2023, it was announced that “the House of Representatives has given its approval. Now the bill goes to the Senate for a vote.”

The House of Representatives has similarly taken steps to approve border wall expansion and increase prison sentences for the crime of human trafficking.

Greg Abbot, the controversial governor of Texas, said via his account on the X Network, formerly Twitter, that he is willing to sign the new law, which has already sparked a movement of activists to say no to the regulations.

They are analyzing the possibility of forcing migrant families to remain in Texas and, if they do not qualify for asylum, more quickly deporting them from the United States.

New groups of undocumented immigrants “pay $10,000 or more” to coyoteros to transport them to the United States on private jets

In disagreement

According to the AP, opponents say that “granting such power to all law enforcement agencies in Texas would risk involuntary arrests of U.S. citizens, endanger families of mixed immigration status on routine outings, and ensure that victims of crimes are afraid to go to the police for help.”

“We don’t want our immigrant community to worry about the fear of being arrested. This is not the kind of state we want,” said Victoria Neave, of District 107 Dallas, for Telemundo.

For specialists, the project being analyzed violates federal law. Ahilan Arulanantham told the AP that “the idea that the state can now take over the power to deport people from the United States is something really radical, even more so than the idea that the state is making a criminal law parallel to criminal law. “Federal Immigration.”

Arulanantham is co-director of the Center for Immigration Law and Policy at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Law.

‘Clash’ with Washington

Abbott and the Biden administration clashed a few months ago over the buoys in the Rio Grande – or Grande.

This is the floating wall of the Rio Grande that is triggering a US Department of Justice lawsuit against the governor of Texas

Giving police “broad new authority to arrest immigrants and order them to leave the United States could move the Republican governor closer to a possible new showdown with Washington over immigration,” according to the Los Angeles Times.

The proposal is causing heated emotions. These are decisive hours for the controversial bill.

The man behind the project, David Spiller, stated according to the Los Angeles Times: “Our calls for help enforcing existing federal immigration laws have been ignored by President Biden. “We’ve had enough.”

(JO)