Immigration Status: Fight Texas

immigration status: He says he filed the challenge Monday on behalf of a small town near the border with Mexico called El Cenizo, which has had a safe haven ordinance since 1999 that prohibits city employees from asking about a person's immigration status, according to Metro News. The ACLU and other groups have also pledged to fight Texas in court over the law signed Sunday by Republican Gov. Luis Vera is an attorney with the League of United Latin American Citizens. Greg Abbott. Texas has taken the unusual step of preemptively suing to stop lawsuits challenging its new sanctuary cities ban. Texas has already asked a federal court to pre-emptively find that the law known as SB4 is constitutional . Abbott says the ban is needed to keep immigrant criminals off the streets and will stand up in court. 3 50 p.m. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.