So over?
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Not their sole jurisdiction, though. They can operate in that space, but it doesn't mean they get to dictate everything that happens in the corridor.
As far as the SC, if it looks like Texas is doing immigration enforcement, I think they're going to stop it on separation of powers.
I like how Texas law doesn't try to deport them. They go to jail, but with the option of self-deporting instead.
So Texas isn't actually enforcing immigration.
Of course the liberal justices will overrule it anyway because they want more browns, and the Catholic justices believe in unitary, top-down authority so always side with the feds.
Normally an illegal caught committing a crime would be held based on whether they got bail. They would have an immigration hold, so as soon as they were let out of jail, or sentenced, I guess, they'd be send to ICE for deportation, but ICE doesn't do that any more.
This Texas law makes it a felony to be in Texas illegally, but if the person arranges their own deportation it's reduced to a misdemeanor with no time.
So immigration is not involved in any way and it's not a due process violation since they get their day in court if they so choose.
Legally it seems very clever to avoid easily overturning it.
This seems like the problem right here. The Feds are exclusively empowered to decide who is allowed in the country. If the basis for whether or not someone is arrested is based on Federal immigration status, it's going to look like immigration enforcement.