Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) said Monday that state authorities are “now authorized” to arrest illegal immigrants just moments before President Joe Biden‘s Justice Department petitioned the Supreme Court to undo an appeals court ruling allowing the state’s law criminalizing illegal border crossings.

“Law enforcement officers in Texas are now authorized to arrest & jail any illegal immigrants crossing the border,” Abbott wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter, two days after the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court’s block on the state’s law criminalizing illegal border crossings.