NEW: A federal judge in El Paso has issued a temporary restraining order blocking Texas Gov. Greg Abbott from carrying out his executive order restricting the transportation of migrants in the state. (TPRNews)
The Department of Justice asked for a temporary restraining order to keep Abbott from using state troopers to stop vehicles suspected of transporting migrants. District Judge Kathleen Cardone granted that request on Tuesday.
The case comes amid a resurgence of the coronavirus with the spread of the Delta variant. The Abbott administration has restrained Texas communities from instituting mask or vaccine mandates while focusing his COVID rhetoric on the border region. In May, he issued a disaster declaration because, he said, illegal crossings “posed an ongoing and imminent threat of disaster.”
Immigrant rights activists said Abbott’s latest order directing state troopers to stop any vehicles suspected of transporting migrants — which is now temporarily paralyzed by Tuesday's restraining order — is illegal for a number of reasons, including the fact that it invites racial profiling. Michael Greenberger at the University of Maryland said Texas is a little different than Arizona, since the state is using existing laws.
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