UPDATE: Federal court temporarily blocks Texas #SB4 anti-immigrant law. As of now, the law will not take effect on March 5th.

Today, we are unveiling Critical Action Needed: Calling for Presidential Leadership on Immigrant Justice that once again lays out clear solutions that the administration can and must act on before his term ends.

It’s surreal that we’re making these requests yet again. /🧵

Happening Now! ⁦Texas Civil Rights Project⁩ is at federal court in #ATX with ACLU of Texas⁩ ⁦@ACLU⁩ to ask a federal judge to not allow #SB4 to take effect March 5.

SB4 is a racist attempt by Gov Abbott to hunt/imprison migrants for political points.

Follow TCRP for updates!

Really needed to see this image today. It's been many dark days with large shadows enveloping us. These people and so many others are the light cutting through.

Grateful to the statewide and local multi-pronged response against the SB4s. Grateful to everyone fighting. Thank you.

LIVE from the TX Capitol this AM — partners + allies gather around ILRC Policy Strategist + Atty Jennefer Canales-Peláez discussing harms of #SB4

“When state officials pursuing personal platforms of hate continue to fight against the interests of Texans, WE WILL NOT BACK DOWN!”

Ahead of today’s federal court hearing, we joined Immigrant Legal Resource Center Grassroots Leadership Texas Civil Rights Project American Gateways + to demand an immediate a halt on #SB4 , Texas’ latest deportation bill.

“We are here to protect our communities from the unconstitutional overreach of Texas” said Elyse.

Good morning from the federal courthouse in Austin, where a coalition of immigrant-rights groups will try to convince a federal judge that a Texas law authorizing a judge or magistrate to order a migrant to return to Mexico, regardless of their nationality, is unconstitutional.

HAPPENING NOW: Civil rights groups give press conference ahead of preliminary injunction hearing later this morning on #SB4 , the new Texas law that empowers state officials to deport people who are suspected of crossing the border illegally + goes into effect on March 5 #txlege

Texas Civil Rights Project “Black + brown Texans will be more vulnerable to abuses like racial profiling, harassment + intimidation as our government instigates xenophobic + white supremacist violence,” said Elyse McMahon, of Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center, of #SB4 .

Today, I am proud to join advocates from across Texas standing up against the SB4 in federal court.

SB4 has the potential to turn every police officer in Texas in an immigration enforcer.

Speakers include Pastor Julio Vasquez from Iglesia Luterana San Lucas in Eagle Pass.

TODAY: A federal judge in Austin will be taking up a preliminary injunction filed by the Biden Admin. to block Texas’s SB4 from taking effect. Keep an eye out for a full story on today’s proceedings later! Courthouse News

Excited to share that the book I’ve been writing about immigration, abolition, and lessons from the movement will be out this May from Haymarket Books. It's called Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition – and feels as urgent as ever. bit.ly/buy-unbuildwal…

Our statement on the Senate’s immigration bill:

The $118B Senate border bill highlights the deepening failures to holistically address immigration from both sides of the aisle.

The only “crisis” we’re seeing is the one spurred on by bipartisan leadership REFUSING to listen to our border communities keranews.org/news/2024-02-0…

It's easy to feel like Texas' long history of the #DrugWar is too entrenched to fight. But local campaigns have made meaningful progress on marijuana reform over the past year, keeping more folks out of the system.

More from GroundGameTX ➡️ drive.google.com/file/d/1GZWlDq…

I was just pulled over by CBP in south Texas.

Driving from Del Río to Eagle Pass with a coworker from LatinoJustice PRLDEF ⚖️ and we see CBP on the side of the road, detaining a small family with young children. 1/x

Learn more on our IG page: instagram.com/p/C0wq2vTpZ6x/

of the 105 detainees on a hunger strike at the tacoma ice facility with a history of human rights abuses, nine remain. one detainee who was on strike for 11 days said ICE cares more about its medical staff being overwhelmed than the detainees starving.

washingtonstatestandard.com/briefs/nine-de…