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WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

New Texas Laws Get Tough on the Border

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

News, Society & Culture

4.22.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Governor Greg Abbott signed new laws into legislation to tackle the crisis at the border, enabling police to arrest migrants crossing into the U.S. illegally. But will courts strike down these new laws, as happened when Arizona tried to handle the issue on the local level? And is this what happens when Congress can't make a deal to fix immigration policy? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch. Texas enacts a new law allowing police to arrest migrants who cross the US-Mexico border

0:44.5

illegally and also giving local judges the authority to order them to leave the

0:48.6

country. Welcome to Potomac Watch. I'm Kim Strossle. I am joined today

0:52.1

by my fabulous colleague and fellow columnist

0:54.8

Alicia Finley. Alicia we're both from the West a lot of problems out there that are

0:59.2

unique to that part of the country and let's start with the border and Texas has moved this

1:04.0

week. Situation at the border is obviously continuing to spiral out of control.

1:08.4

The Senate went home this week without any breakthroughs on a deal to trade Ukraine funding for changes in

1:14.7

border policy and amid all this Texas which has of course borne a lot of the

1:19.5

brunt of the Biden administration's failure on the border decided to act.

1:23.6

Governor Greg Abbott signed a law, a new statute that lets Texas law enforcement officers arrest

1:29.4

people who are suspected of entering the country illegally. Once in custody, migrants can either agree to Texas judge's order

1:36.7

to leave the US or be prosecuted on misdemeanor charges.

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