(20 Dec 2023)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Eagle Pass, Texas - 19 October 2023
1. Mid of migrants behind razor wires at the Rio Grande Riverbank after entering the U.S. from Mexico.
HEADLINE: AP Explains Texas’ new immigration law
2. Mid of migrants cross razor wire fencing at the Rio Grande, enter the U.S. from Mexico, and are moved for processing by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
3. Various of migrants are moved for processing by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
ANNOTATION: Rights groups have filed a lawsuit challenging a new Texas law that would allow police to arrest migrants suspected of crossing the border illegally.
ANNOTATION: The lawsuit was filed Tuesday in federal court in Austin less than 24 hours after Republican Gov. Abbott signed the measure into law in Brownsville.
4. Mid of a child vignette between two officers as they wait to be processed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Austin, Texas - 19 December 2023
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Paul Weber, Associated Press:
“Immigration enforcement is a federal responsibility, and this lawsuit alleges that Texas is going outside of those bounds by trying to enforce immigration law on its own as a state.”
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Eagle Pass, Texas - 19 October 2023
6. Various of migrants are moved for processing by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Austin, Texas - 19 December 2023
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7. SOUNDBITE (English) Paul Weber, Associated Press:
"They say this law invites racial profiling and will lead to arrests across the state. Importantly, this law is not only enforced near the Texas border the way the law is written. It allows any police officer in Texas, anywhere in the state, including hundreds of miles away from the border, to arrest someone on illegal entry charges.”
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Location Unknown - 19 December 2023
8. SOUNDBITE (English) State Rep. David Spiller, (R) Texas:
“I've said all along that I thought that 95% of the enforcement of this would be within 50 miles of the border. I still believe that. But that's not to say that you couldn't have an instance in Texarkana or in Amarillo or something.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Eagle Pass, Texas - 19 October 2023
9. Mid of a child rests his shoulder as they await to be processed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
10. Closeup of officers' utility belt
11. Mid of migrants processed.
ANNOTATION: The lawsuit from the American Civil Liberties Union, its Texas branch, and the Texas Civil Rights Project claims that the new law is unconstitutional.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Austin, Texas - 19 December 2023
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Paul Weber, Associated Press:
“This law will take effect in March unless it is stopped by a court. More than 20 congressional Democrats have asked the Department of Justice to also file a lawsuit, an attempt to bring this law so hot before it is enacted, also saying it is unconstitutional and infringes upon the U.S. government's purview over immigration enforcement.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Eagle Pass, Texas - 19 October 2023
13. Various of migrants are moved for processing by U.S. Customs and Border Protection
ANNOTATION: Texas has bused more than 65,000 migrants to cities across America since August 2022 and installed razor wire along the banks of the Rio Grande.
STORYLINE:
Civil rights organizations on Tuesday filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a new Texas law that would allow police to arrest migrants who cross the border illegally and permit local judges to order them to leave the country.
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