State officials once tried to help Trump with immigration plans - here's what happened
Back in 2016 some states made bold moves to support Trumpʼs immigration ideas. Local law-makers wanted police to catch people who entered US without papers‚ but courts had other thoughts
Around 8 years ago when Donald Trump was getting ready to move into White House‚ many state-level Republican leaders jumped into action with their own immigration plans (which matched his campaign promises)
Some state officials wanted to copy Texasʼs approach: giving local cops power to catch people who entered US without proper papers; however these rules got stuck in courts because of questions about whoʼs really in charge of immigration stuff - states or fed government
- Several states tried making new laws about this
- Texas had similar rules that courts put on pause
- Questions came up about states stepping into federal territory
The whole thing showed how state-level politics can get mixed-up with national plans - especially when it comes to tricky stuff like immigration control: its interesting to see how different parts of government sometimes dont agree on whos supposed to do what
