Three federal appeals court judges will be asked Friday to allow Texas to ban “sanctuary cities” after a district judge last month blocked much of the law before it took effect. Under the law, Texas police chiefs could face removal from office and criminal charges for not complying with federal immigration officials' requests to detain people jailed on non-immigration offenses. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has praised the Texas law and the Department of Justice filed arguments in support of it, as did several states' attorneys general. Supporters of the state law say immigration officials have already determined probable cause when they seek to have local officials detain someone. Circuit Court of Appeals will be asked to let the law take effect ahead of a November appeal hearing.

Source: Fox News September 22, 2017 10:07 UTC