SRE: high positive for the Texas anti-immigrant law

Mexico City. After a new hearing was held yesterday in the United States in the legal battle against the Texas anti-immigrant law SB4, Mexican authorities celebrated that the legislation, which they describe as xenophobic, remains frozen.

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals heard in New Orleans the positions of the federal and Texas governments regarding whether or not SB4 should go into effect, either partially or completely, while the court decides whether the legislation violates the constitution. of the United States. The court did not announce a decision, so the entry into force of the law remains frozen for now.

At the hearing, a lawyer defending Texas’ plans to arrest migrants who enter U.S. territory without documents acknowledged before a panel of federal judges that it is possible that the law has gone too farbut that will be decided by the court.

What Texas has done here is look at Supreme Court precedents and try to develop a statute that goes up to the line of Supreme Court precedents, but not beyondsaid Texas government attorney Aaron Nielson. Now, to be fair, maybe Texas went too far and that’s the question this court is going to have to decide..

Foreign Minister Alicia Bárcena pointed out that Mexico will continue to defend its citizens against laws that violate their rights.

“#SB4 remains suspended. The @SRE_mx remains firm in the defense of Mexicans against discriminatory laws in Texas and the United States,” said the head of Mexican diplomacy once the hearing concluded.

Our migrants are NOT criminals. They contribute $324 billion annually to that economy and represent 70 percent of its agricultural workers. They are not alone!added the chancellor on social networks.

The head of the Foreign Ministry for North America, Roberto Velasco, assured that at the hearing Mexico’s position weighed on the impact for our community and on the bilateral relationship.