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legal limbo on the southern border after an appeals court puts a Texas law allowing police

to arrest and deport migrants back on hold. Congress and the White House reach a

deal to fund the government but will it make it to President Biden's desk before a shutdown?

And a look at some of the down ballot results from yesterday's primary elections. Welcome to the news hour. After a series of legal back and forth, a controversial

immigration law in Texas is back in the hands of an appeals court. The law

gives state officials the power to arrest migrants whom they believe crossed into the US illegally.

After a Supreme Court ruling yesterday allowed Texas to enforce the law, a federal appeals court put it back on hold,

and a three-judge panel heard arguments today on whether it should be enforced.

Gage Devia from Texas Public Radio has been covering all of this and joins me now.

So Gage, the last 24 hours have really been legal whiplash for this law known as SB 4.

As we speak now, where do things stand with the law and its implementation?

Well, right now, SB 4 is not law and another hearing is expected in early April, which will decide whether to allow some provisions of that law to continue while litigation against it is being ruled on.

So the state met in court today to discuss it, and initially Texas argued that this law should be

enforced while litigation against it is pending. But by the end of the hearing

and some questioning by the judges the state asked if at the very least that state officers

could arrest migrants to give them federal immigration, give them over to federal immigration authorities.

But the judges said that this was already

something that they do with current trespassing laws

because migrants have already been arrested

for that under operation loan start.

But just to clarify, that law is not a law

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