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
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