Federal appeals court order puts controversial Texas immigration law back on hold
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🗓️ 20 March 2024
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A federal appeals court has put a controversial Texas immigration law back on hold.
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| 0:08.0 | Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Wednesday March 20th, 2024. This is the |
| 0:18.9 | excerpt. Today the latest on a controversial Texas immigration law. |
| 0:27.0 | Plus we look at a handful of Tuesday elections and how children can easily access ammunition online. |
| 0:35.0 | A federal appeals court yesterday issued a hold on SB4, a Texas law that would authorize state and local police to arrest and even deport people suspected |
| 0:45.2 | of being in the United States without legal authorization. |
| 0:48.8 | The two to one ruling by the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals came hours after the Supreme Court paved the way for the controversial |
| 0:55.3 | state law to take effect yesterday, allowing Texas authorities to begin enforcing the measure. |
| 1:00.9 | The Appeals Court panel has now blocked the state from enforcing SB4. the Department previously called the law flatly inconsistent with the Supreme Court's |
| 1:14.1 | past decisions which recognize that the power to admit and remove non-citizens lie |
| 1:19.7 | solely with the federal government. But Texas officials have said that the law is needed to deal with the federal government's |
| 1:26.4 | inability or unwillingness to protect the border. Businessman Bernie Moreno will face Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown this fall after winning Ohio's Republican U.S. Senate primary yesterday. |
| 1:42.0 | He defeated State Senator Matt Dolan and Secretary of State |
| 1:45.1 | Frank LaRose in a contest that pitted the GOP's old guard against allies of former |
| 1:50.4 | President Donald Trump. Yesterday's election wrapped a tight race |
| 1:54.1 | that became increasingly vicious in its final weeks. |
| 1:57.0 | The candidates and their allies spent millions |
| 1:59.3 | to spar on the airwaves as they fought for voter support, and most attacks centered around the |
| 2:03.8 | candidates conservative credentials and whether they'd have Trump's back if he's |
| 2:07.7 | reelected in November. Trump endorsed Moreno back in December, but the nod did not |
| 2:12.4 | put an end to the race like many expected. |
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