President Donald Trump has reversed several Biden-era immigration policies. (Donald Trump 2024 campaign)
The law also allows for a judge to step in and drop the charges against a migrant who agrees to return to Mexico.
While state lawmakers reasoned that the law was made necessary by former President Joe Biden's lax policies on border security, the Biden administration pushed back against the state with legal challenges. Most notably, the Biden administration argued that the Texas law violated the constitution, which grants only the federal government the power to regulate immigration.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed SB 4 into law in 2023. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)
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Meanwhile, the border has fallen eerily silent in the weeks since President Donald Trump took office, with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents recording record-low numbers of encounters with illegal migrants at the southwest border.
According to CBP data, the agency encountered just over 8,000 migrants at the southwest border in February 2025, down over 90% from the totals seen the prior year.
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