Advocates gird for Texas migrant law that could upheave US immigration

Texas has upped its fight to make a controversial new law — which would allow local authorities to arrest and detain migrants — enforceable.

The law has been the subject of an ongoing legal battle, with the United States Supreme Court briefly allowing it to go into effect on Tuesday.

But a lower court blocked its implementation hours afterwards, amid ongoing challenges over the law’s constitutionality. That court heard further arguments on Wednesday weighing the pause.

As Texas’s…