States copy Texas after Supreme Court per­mits local police to arrest and deport ille­gal immi­grants

States copy Texas after Supreme Court permits local police to arrest and deport illegal immigrants

States con­cerned about the unre­solved bor­der cri­sis have tak­en mat­ters into their own hands and are fol­low­ing Texas’s strat­e­gy to deter ille­gal immi­grants from their juris­dic­tions by allow­ing local police to arrest and deport them.
A hand­ful of states have begun to move or attempt­ed unsuc­cess­ful­ly to move their own ver­sions of Texas law, S.B. 4, since the Supreme Court tem­porar­i­ly allowed Texas to imple­ment the law last week.
The only suc­cess­ful state in that short peri­od has been Iowa, but oth­ers are mov­ing swift­ly to send a mes­sage that they are not open for busi­ness to ille­gal immi­grants cross­ing the bor­der under Pres­i­dent Joe Biden, the oppo­site of how sanc­tu­ary cities like New York City and Chica­go ini­tial­ly claimed to be open to assist­ing before they were inun­dat­ed by a cou­ple hun­dred thou­sand …