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Why the new Texas immigration law won’t work

By Conn Carroll
Published December 19, 2023 4:03pm ET
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Why the new Texas immigration law won’t work
Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) signed a new law Monday that would make crossing the Texas-Mexico border a state crime, empowering Texas law enforcement to arrest and detain illegal border-crossers. Considering all the misery President Joe Biden’s border crisis has inflicted on communities throughout the state, including most painfully on border communities, Abbott’s effort is understandable. […]

Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) signed a new law Monday that would make crossing the Texas-Mexico border a state crime, empowering Texas law enforcement to arrest and detain illegal border-crossers.

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