Appeals Court Reinstates Hold on Texas Immigration Law

This comes hours after a Supreme Court ruling allowed the Lone Star State to enforce the law.

National Guard soldiers stand guard on the banks of the Rio Grande river at Shelby Park in Eagle Pass, Texas, on Jan. 12, 2024. Brandon Bell/Getty Images

A federal appeals court issued an order late on March 19 that reinstates a hold blocking Texas from enforcing a law that enables local law enforcement to arrest suspected illegal immigrants.

This decision came from a three-judge panel of the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, voting 2–1 to overturn a previous ruling made by another panel of the same court that granted an administrative stay of the law’s implementation.