By Nate Raymond<\/p>\n
May 29 (Reuters) – A federal appeals court on Friday cleared the way for Texas authorities to enforce key parts of a law that would \u200callow state officials to arrest and deport people suspected of having illegally crossed \u200cthe U.S.-Mexico border.<\/p>\n
A 2-1 panel of the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in an order \u200bput on hold an injunction a federal judge had issued on May 14 in a class-action lawsuit filed by civil rights advocates on behalf of thousands of people who could be subject to the law’s provisions.<\/p>\n
Austin-based U.S. District Judge David Ezra had issued the injunction after concluding \u200cthe state law improperly challenged the \u2060federal government’s long-held power to control immigration, naturalization and deportations.<\/p>\n
Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who is running for a seat in the \u2060U.S. Senate, quickly appealed, leading to Friday’s order.<\/p>\n
The groups representing the plaintiffs — the American Civil Liberties Union, its Texas affiliate and the Texas Civil Rights Project — in a joint statement called Friday’s ruling \u200bdisappointing \u200band said they “will continue to fight against this \u200babhorrent and blatantly illegal law.”<\/p>\n
Paxton’s office \u200cdid not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n
The lawsuit had been filed to prevent parts of the 2023 law from taking effect, after the appeals court in April overturned an earlier injunction issued during Democratic President Joe Biden’s administration that had prevented the Republican-backed measure known as SB 4 from being enforced.<\/p>\n
Republican President Donald Trump’s administration had dropped a case the \u200cBiden administration brought challenging the law. Immigrant-rights groups \u200bthat had also sued pressed on, but the 5th \u200bCircuit on a 10-7 vote concluded the \u200borganizations lacked legal standing to pursue their case.<\/p>\n
The new ACLU-backed lawsuit \u200csought to address that issue by instead \u200bsuing on behalf of \u200bnon-citizens who could be subject to four key provisions of the law.<\/p>\n
Those provisions include ones that make it a state crime for someone to reenter the U.S. after deportation, \u200beven if they have federal \u200cpermission to do so or have since obtained a green card, and that \u200bgive magistrate judges in Texas the power to issue deportation orders.<\/p>\n
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