{"id":6977,"date":"2023-12-19T17:10:51","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T22:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2023\/12\/19\/aclu-others-sue-texas-over-new-law-allowing-it-to-arrest-migrants\/"},"modified":"2023-12-19T17:10:51","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T22:10:51","slug":"aclu-others-sue-texas-over-new-law-allowing-it-to-arrest-migrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2023\/12\/19\/aclu-others-sue-texas-over-new-law-allowing-it-to-arrest-migrants\/","title":{"rendered":"ACLU, others sue Texas over new law allowing it to arrest migrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>         In the first of what could be many legal challenges, three civil rights organizations sued Texas law \u00a0enforcement officials Tuesday\u00a0in a bid\u00a0to block a new law that lets state and local\u00a0police arrest immigrants suspected of crossing the border illegally. Signed into law Monday by Gov. Greg Abbott, Senate Bill 4\u00a0is designed to give Texas immigration enforcement powers previously reserved for the federal government. Critics also worry it will lead to a rise in racial profiling and deprive people of due process.\u00a0Under the new law, state judges can deport those found guilty of illegal entry or charge them with a class B misdemeanor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the first of what could be many legal challenges, three civil rights organizations sued Texas law \u00a0enforcement officials Tuesday\u00a0in a bid\u00a0to block a new law that lets state and local\u00a0police arrest immigrants suspected of crossing the border illegally. Signed into law Monday by Gov. Greg Abbott, Senate Bill 4\u00a0is designed to give Texas immigration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6977"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}