Anyone suspected of illegally crossing into the state from mexico. The fight over who can police the border escalating and the Supreme Court weighing in. Nearly half a Million People here in el paso have to basically justify their presence in the United States because of the color of their skin. Norah what this means for the battle over immigration. Texas very simply is enforcing the laws. Norah Cbs Evening News starts now. Good evening. Im norah odonnell, and thank you for being with us. We want to begin tonight with a ruling from the Supreme Court that allows a sweeping texas Immigration Law to go into effect for now. In a 63 decision, the nations highest court said it wont block the law, known as sp 4, that gives local and state police the power to arrest and detain migrants suspected of crossing the border illegally. The federal government has been the Sole Authority of Immigration Enforcement for decades. Critics say this ruling is an affront to federal law. The case now heads bac
I am jose diazbalart. Its Super Tuesday, and right now voters are casting their ballots in 16 states and one u. S. Territory. It could mark a decisive moment. Nikki haley is looking for an upset. Trumps name will be included on every republican ballot, 24 hours after the Supreme Court handed him a victory saying no state can bar him from the ballot because of his actions on january 6th. We begin with our national correspondent, steve kornacki, at the big board, and Vaughn Hillyard covering the Trump Campaign, and ali vitali joining us from the road covering the Haley Campaign. The big picture to keep in mind, yellow, you see the republicans, and 1215 is the magic number to win the nomination. The big thing to keep in mind are the rules in the states, they are designed to determine a winner. Demographically there are a lot of suburbs, Big Sprawling Suburbs in california. Nikki haley has done well in big, sprawling suburbs. You may say this could be a reasonable target for haley, but the
We should chaos. Halation other bills that are variants of it are . I think that the course will weigh in. I think they will be struck down just as we saw years ago when arizona passed a show your Papers Law when it comes to immigration, a unified approach is not just essential for maintaining order, fairness, the integrity of our nations laws. But that is precisely why we have the Supremacy Clause of the constitution. So i do believe the courts will deem these both illegal and unconstitutional. But also they are impacted l coo. Law enforcement go al is going to have difficulty implementing them. Migrants will have an experience, chilling affect where they are not going to be willing to come forward to report crimes to be helpful
in 2010, the state of arizona passed into law the most aggressive anti-immigrant legislation mir in the country. you may remember it as the show me your papers law. one of the requirements is it made officials ask for for anyone they thought to be an immigrant regardless of why they expected it. that law made it a crime to be undocumented in arizona. it criminalized providing shelter to an undocumented immigrant. in 2010, three weeks before that law was due to go into effect, the u.s. justice department under president obama sued arizona over that proposed law and argued what arizona was trying to do there conflicted with existing federal law around
passed into law, the most aggressive anti immigrant legislation that had that point been passed anywhere in the country. you might remember as the show me your papers law. one of its requirements made law enforcement officials in arizona, ask for proof of legal immigration status, from anyone they suspected, might be an undocumented, immigrant regardless of the reasons they suspected it. the show me your papers provision was just one piece of a sweeping radical anti immigrant bill in arizona that. here that what made it a crime to be undocumented in arizona. a criminalize providing shelter to an undocumented immigrant. in 2010, three weeks before that law was due to go into effect. the u.s. justice department under president obama sued arizona over that proposed law, they argue arizona was trying to do, they re conflicted with existing federal law around