What is SB4? Texas immigration enforcement law likely to face court challenge

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Is Texas SB4 legal?Immigration enforcement has long been the domain of the federal government.
52% : State Rep. David Spiller, a Republican who helped draft the legislation, said the law is designed to withstand a legal challenge and won't result in racial profiling by local and state law enforcement.
49% : The bill has drawn national kudos from supporters who say the law gives Texas an additional tool to enforce its portion of the border.
49% : Aron Thorn, senior staff attorney with the Texas Civil Rights Project, said law enforcement will inevitably use "race as a proxy for immigration status.
46% : "Will Abbott sign SB4?The governor has said he'll sign the bill, which he said delivered "historic progress on border security.""I look forward to signing Senate Bill 4, which creates penalties for illegal entry into Texas (and) authorizes the removal of illegal immigrants apprehended at the border," he said in a Nov. 15 post on X, formerly Twitter.
43% : Those found to have violated the law can be jailed or ordered by a magistrate to be returned to Mexico.
43% : State attempts to establish immigration laws have failed, historically, when the legislation is challenged in court.
43% : That's why it's the federal government that has the primacy: Immigration is akin to foreign policy.
39% : Those crimes are codified in U.S. law Title 8 under sections 1325 and 1326.
38% : But the legislation has also drawn widespread condemnation from detractors who say Texas has no standing to regulate immigration and the bill could result in racial profiling of residents by law enforcement.
33% : The legislation mirrors the federal law that makes illegal entry at the U.S. border a misdemeanor and illegal re-entry a felony.
24% : "Opponents of the legislation are asking the U.S. Department of Justice to sue Texas, saying the Biden administration needs to do more to rein in Abbott's actions on border and immigration.

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