In a confusing turn of events, the controversial Texas immigration law has once again been put on hold. After the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for the strict immigration law yesterday, a 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel temporarily suspended it — again.
A 3-judge panel of Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals said that it was dissolving its own earlier ruling, which had cleared the way for the law to be implemented once the #SupremeCourt acted.
The late-night reversal meant that an #injunction imposed by a #federal district court last month would again be in force, blocking the #law from being in effect.
The back-&-forth series of #legal orders — & the on-again-off-again reality of a sweeping new #state-level #immigration law— prompted uncertainty along the #border & defiance from #Mexico’s govt on Tues.
Even before the #FifthCircuit’s late order, it had been unclear when #Texas would begin making arrests under the law.
#Mexico will not accept #deportations made by #Texas “under any circumstances,” the country’s foreign ministry said on Tues in response to #SCOTUS’s decision to allow TX to arrest migrants who cross into the state w/o authorization.
Mexico’s top diplomat for North America rejected the #SupremeCourt’s ruling, saying that #immigration policy was something to be negotiated between #federal governments.
President Andrés Manuel #LópezObrador [#AMLO] of #Mexico … has also called on the #UnitedStates to suspend #sanctions against #Venezuela & lift the blockade against #Cuba, saying that such measures would reduce #migration flows from those countries. And he has called proposals to build walls or close the #border as “electoral propaganda.”
The #SupremeCourt on Tues cleared the way for Texas to immediately begin enforcing one of the nation’s harshest immigration laws, which opponents say would disrupt more than a century of #federal control over #international borders.
The divided decision was preliminary & urged a lower court to quickly decide whether to allow the #law to remain in effect while appeals continue. That approach drew dissent from the 3 liberal justices, 2 of whom said the majority was inviting “further #chaos & #crisis in #immigration enforcement.”
“The Court gives a green light to a #law that will upend the longstanding #federal - #state balance of #power & sow #chaos,” wrote Justice SoniaSotomayor, joined by Justice ##KetanjiBrownJackson. They noted that a lower court judge had concluded “that it is likely #unconstitutional.”
#Biden WH blasts #SCOTUS ruling letting Texas #SB4 immigration crackdown law take effect. 'We fundmentally disagree' with the high court's order per the WH PressSec.
Robie Flores’ debut feature film is a love letter to la frontera. In Flores’ Eagle Pass, the river is not a divide that signals danger but a “magical portal” and a character unto itself that brings communities on together.
#SCOTUS Justice Samuel Alito on Mon extended a temporary pause on a #Republican-backed #Texas#law allowing state law enforcement authorities to arrest people suspected of crossing the U.S.- Mexico #border illegally.
Also featured this quote from Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines:
"While it is too early to tell, it is likely that the Gaza conflict will have a generational impact on terrorism."
— #immigration#migration#ClimateChange#border#israel#gaza#terrorism
Biden scrapes together $300m more for Ukraine weapons
💥The Pentagon will rush about ⭐️$300m in weapons to Ukraine after finding cost savings in its contracts, the White House has announced.
The replenishment comes under a presidential drawdown authority, or #PDA, to send equipment to Ukraine and then sign contracts to order replacements.
As efforts to get new US funds for weapons remained stalled in the House of Representatives, House #Democrats are gathering signatures for a “#discharge#petition”, which can circumvent the speaker, Mike Johnson, who is preventing the House from considering the ⭐️$95bn package of aid for #Ukraine, #Israel and #Taiwan.
A grouping of centrist #Republicans has launched a separate discharge petition for a smaller ⭐️$66bn bill that would include US-Mexico #border#security provisions.
💥Poland’s prime minister, Donald #Tusk, warned Johnson on Tuesday that “the fate of millions of people” and “thousands of lives” depend on whether Johnson allows the vote.
“This is not some political skirmish that [only] matters on the American political scene. Mr Johnson’s failure to make a positive decision will cost thousands of lives.
He takes personal responsibility for that,” Tusk said after he and the Polish president, Andrzej Duda, met at the White House with Joe Biden, the US president.
Johnson’s office declined comment, and earlier, after Johnson met Duda, his office issued a statement that did not address Ukraine funding.
💥Ukraine has targeted Russian energy facilities in one of its largest cross-border drone and rocket attacks of the war.
One attack hit an oil refinery in the Nizhny Novgorod region that produces nearly 6% of Russia’s total refined crude.
Another hit an oil depot in the city of Oryol.
Videos online showed a major blaze at the Lukoil Norsi oil refinery near Nizhny Novgorod.
An industry source said the main crude distillation unit (AVT-6) at Norsi was damaged, disrupting at least half of the facility’s production.
Nizhny Novgorod is nearly 1,000km (620 miles) from the Ukrainian border and lies about 400km (250 miles) to the east of Moscow.
The strike is the latest evidence of 👍Ukraine’s growing ability to target critical infrastructure deep into Russian territory.
💥The attacks on Tuesday came as three pro-Ukrainian battalions made up of recruits from Russia launched an incursion in the Belgorod, Bryansk and Kursk regions in a rare raid meant to bring the two-year-old war to Russian soil, if only for a short time.
Members of the Siberia, Freedom of Russia Legion and RDK battalions released footage they said showed a ground assault supported by at least one tank and other armoured vehicles.
Videos showed the troops overrunning Russian border checkpoints and pitched fighting in settlements.
💥The Freedom of Russia Legion claimed to have captured the town of Tetkino in the Kursk region, and the pro-Ukrainian forces also released footage of soldiers they claimed were captive Russians.
The Russian ministry of defence claimed that the attacks were repelled but did not provide evidence.
Schools in the Russian city of Kursk switched to online classes, local authorities said.
A Russian missile hit two apartment buildings in the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih on Tuesday, killing three people and injuring at least 38 including 10 children.
Serhiy Lysak, governor of Dnipropetrovsk region, said: “Two buildings were hit, one five storeys, one nine storeys.
The number of injured is constantly rising as is the number of children injured.”
💥EU countries are close to a deal on a military aid fund for Ukraine that would pave the way for an injection of €5bn, diplomats have said.
The European Peace Facility gives EU members refunds for sending munitions to other countries.
Diplomats said a compromise had been found on a “buy European” policy pushed for by the French, and Germany’s demand for countries’ contributions to the fund to be offset by their bilateral aid to Ukraine.
The deal looked set to be approved by ambassadors from the EU’s 27 member countries at a meeting in Brussels on Wednesday, the diplomats said
Infrastructure Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov said earlier on March 11 that "protesters and police are stopping buses going to and from Poland. Passengers are being held without any explanation."
At one point in the 68-min long speech, Biden said: “In Nov, my team began serious negotiations w/a #bipartisan group of senators. The result was a bipartisan bill w/the toughest set of border #security reforms we've ever seen.”
The nation’s southern #border has long been a hot spot for illegal smuggling of drugs, weapons & migrants. But what about illicitly transporting greenhouse gases that cause #ClimateChange?
A California man was arrested Mon on charges of doing exactly that & is facing the first prosecution under a 2020 US #law aimed at phasing out some of the most potent greenhouse gases on the planet.
When the US needed him to be a leader, he instead fixed his legendary focus on merely retaining the title. He has not even pretended to be a national leader. McConnell has failed our country at its moment of maximum peril.
When the time for a McConnell obituary comes, that will be his legacy.
The politics of making a good deal with Democrats on #border security and #Ukraine aid had to beshut down because Trump needs immigration as a campaign issue. "We don't want to do anything to undermine him," McConnell a power hungry #whiteChristianNationalist reportedly said.
There is evidently no principle for which McConnell will risk his personal, partisan power and position. Those are his sacred priorities, more important than preserving and protecting the #Constitution or promoting the national interest.
May karma visit onto him the pain, suffering and destruction he has caused to millions of Americans and Ukrainians. #MoscowMitch the worst of America. #Kentucky get rid of this monster.
Border wall and asylum seekers a few days ago at sunrise, east of Sasabe, Arizona. These people were mostly from Latin America. They were some of the 50 or so people who were delivered through the wall last night by the human smugglers they paid.
Border Patrol picked everyone up fairly quickly on this morning, though sometimes people have to wait all day or overnight to be brought into the station for the first step of their asylum claim processing.
Every day, volunteers from No More Deaths and Tucson Samaritans offer food, water and first aid to people along the road. They also maintain an aid camp west of where this photo was taken.
As I said in the previous post, we need a radical rethinking of the border and immigration. We need to begin a discussion about how to have formally open borders as a means to stability and security.
On #border & #immigration Republicans are complete frauds. They blocked the vote. We see the fraud that republicans are perpetuating on American people.
The prelim #injunction granted by US Dist Judge Ezra pauses a #law that was set to take effect Mar5 & comes as #POTUS#Biden & …#Trump, were visiting #Texas' southern #border to discuss #immigration. TX ofcls are expected to #appeal. Opponents call the TX measure the most dramatic attempt by a #state to #police immigration since a 2010 #Arizona law that opponents rebuked as a “Show Me Your Papers” bill. #SCOTUS partially struck down the AZ law, but some #Republican ldrs want the ruling reviewed.
"President Joe Biden and his likely Republican challenger Donald Trump both head to the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas on Thursday in a sign of how central immigration has become to the 2024 election and how much both candidates want to use it to their advantage."
Ukrainian consul to visit Polish border amid unconfirmed reports of protesters stopping buses (kyivindependent.com)
Infrastructure Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov said earlier on March 11 that "protesters and police are stopping buses going to and from Poland. Passengers are being held without any explanation."