A Texas judge said on Monday that her own community on the US-Mexico border could be crippled by any changes to the state’s Senate Bill 4, a law that allows Texas officials to make their own arrests, detainments, and deportations but has been put on hold as a court case challenging it proceeds.
The Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans last week denied a request from Texas to allow the legislation to go into effect while a federal court case concerning the law continues. The court will hear arguments in the case on Wednesday, ABC affiliate WFAA in Dallas reports.
Terrell County Judge Dale Carruthers, who presides over the population of 760 along the Rio Grande River and supports S.B. 4, told Scripps News on Monday that her county is “financially strapped. Anything else that would be an unfunded mandate could cripple this county.”
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