Mexican President López Obrador says his country will not accept deportations from Texas as he slams controversial ‘anti-immigrant’ law that will allow cops to arrest migrants for illegally crossing the border

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador blasted Texas over a law that would give police officers the power to arrest people illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border and vowed that Mexico would not accept person expelled from the state.

“I will make it known right now, if they tried to evict, for example, which is not their responsibility, we would not accept evictions from the Texas government,” he said Wednesday. López Obrador during his daily press briefing at the National Palace in Mexico City.

The law, known as Senate Bill 4, was blocked again Tuesday evening by a federal appeals court just hours after the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for it to take effect .

Cops would be authorized to arrest people if they are seen crossing the border illegally in Mexico border counties.

The controversial law could also be applied elsewhere in Texas if a person is arrested on suspicion of another offense and a fingerprint taken during jail booking links them to an alleged re-entry offense. This probably wouldn’t come into play during a routine traffic stop.

“We are against this draconian law, completely opposed, contrary to human rights, a law completely dehumanized, anti-Christian, unjust, violating the precepts, the norms of human coexistence, not only international law, but even violating the Bible ” said López Obrador. .

“The federal government of the United States is against this decision and we do not want to anticipate what we could do in case Texas, the governor and all these anti-immigration and anti-Mexicans want to do it,” added López Obrador .

Earlier Tuesday, a divided Supreme Court allowed Texas to begin enforcing a law and gave police broad powers to apprehend undocumented migrants suspected of crossing Texas’ border with Mexico.

The conservative majority’s order had rejected an emergency request from President Joe Biden’s administration, which said the law violated federal authority and would create chaos in immigration law.

The left-wing Mexican president blasted Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and said only the federal government can rule on the status of undocumented immigrants in the United States.

On Tuesday, Iowa passed a bill that would see a person entering the state after being denied entry into the United States charged with an aggravated misdemeanor, or a felony in certain circumstances, including when she was arrested while committing a different crime.

New Hampshire lawmakers are also working on a bill that would give police the authority to bring trespassing charges against people suspected of entering the United States illegally from Canada.

Georgia Republicans have introduced a bill that will require some cities and counties to seek aagreements to conduct certain immigration-related operations in prisons to assist the federal government.

The move comes nearly a month after police charged a Venezuelan man with beating a nursing student Laken Riley to death on the University of Georgia campus.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection recorded 961,537 encounters with migrants who crossed the border illegally in the first four months of fiscal year 2024.

CBP officers reported 176,205 encounters in January, a significant decrease from December, when 301,983 migrant interdictions were conducted.