Fed­er­al Judge Says There Will Be Real ‘Con­se­quences’ After Texas Blocked Again From Enforc­ing Immi­gra­tion Law

A fed­er­al appeals court pan­el on Tues­day extend­ed a block of a Texas law that would allow state author­i­ties to arrest and deport immi­grants sus­pect­ed of enter­ing the U.S. ille­gal­ly, prompt­ing a stern dis­sent from the court’s lone dis­senter.
The 2–1 deci­sion from a pan­el on the Fifth Cir­cuit Court of Appeals comes after a month of legal back and forth on the law, also known as SB 4. The major­i­ty opin­ion said that Texas would not like­ly suc­ceed in its argu­ment that the law was con­sti­tu­tion­al and nec­es­sary because the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment has his­tor­i­cal­ly had exclu­sive con­trol over immi­gra­tion law. 
“For near­ly 150 years, the Supreme Court has held that the …