A federal appeals court lifted a temporary injunction blocking Texas Senate Bill 4, a 2023 law authorizing state police to arrest people suspected of entering the country without authorization. In a 10-7 decision, the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that plaintiffs Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center, American Gateways and El Paso County lacked legal standing to challenge the law, without addressing the underlying constitutional questions about whether states can enforce immigration law. The law requires state magistrate judges to order people arrested for illegal entry to leave for Mexico in lieu of prosecution or upon conviction; the Biden administration had challenged the law as unconstitutional, but the Trump administration later withdrew the Department of Justice from the lawsuit.