Mexico warns US court of 'substantial tension' if controversial Texas immigration law takes effect
Source: CNN
Published 5:15 PM EDT, Thu March 21, 2024
CNN — Mexico is warning a federal US court that if its judges permit a controversial Texas immigration law to take effect, the two nations would experience “substantial tension” that would have far-reaching consequences for US-Mexico relations.
In a friend-of-the-court brief filed Thursday with the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals, lawyers for Mexico said relations with the US would be strained.
“Enforcement of SB 4 would inappropriately burden the uniform and predictable sovereign-to-sovereign relations between Mexico and the United States, by criminalizing the unauthorized entry of noncitizens into Texas from outside the county and creating diverging removal requirements between and among individual states and the national government,” they wrote in the brief.
“Enforcement of SB 4 would also interfere with Mexico’s right to determine its own policies regarding entry into its territory, undermine U.S.-Mexico collaboration on a legal migration framework and border management, and hinder U.S.-Mexico trade,” the attorneys told the court.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/21/politics/mexico-warns-of-substantial-tension-with-the-us-if-federal-court-allows-controversial-texas-immigration-law-to-take-effect/index.html
Link to brief (PDF reader) - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24494292-mexico-amicus-brief
Link to brief (PDF) - https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24494292/mexico-amicus-brief.pdf
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