Name: Lawsuit challenges Texas efforts to restrict illegal border crossings
Uploaded: 2023-12-19T23:35:56-05:00
Duration: 5 min
Description: By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) -Civil rights groups filed a lawsuit on Tuesday challenging a new Republican-backed law in Texas that will give state officials broad powers to arrest, prosecute, and deport people who illegally cross the U.S.-Mexico border. The lawsuit filed in federal court in Austin, Texas, claims that the law signed by Republican Texas […]

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Lawsuit challenges Texas efforts to restrict illegal border crossings

By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) -Civil rights groups filed a lawsuit on Tuesday challenging a new Republican-backed law in Texas that will give state officials broad powers to arrest, prosecute, and deport people who illegally cross the U.S.-Mexico border. The lawsuit filed in federal court in Austin, Texas, claims that the law signed by Republican Texas […]

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