In a 94-page decision, Garcia wrote that parts of the Texas law are likely to be found unconstitutional. The law would fine local officials who refused to assist federal agencies in working to deport illegal immigrants up to $25,500 a day. The administration has continued to try to steer funding away from cities and towns that refuse to help enforce immigration law. Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner, who is touring flooded areas of the city, tweeted: “Happy to learn a federal judge blocked the Texas law aimed at making local police immigration enforcers. Garcia ruled that the mandates and penalties in the law go beyond what federal law requires and “upset the delicate balance between federal enforcement and local cooperation and violate the United States Constitution.”

Source: Washington Post August 31, 2017 01:02 UTC