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AUSTIN, Texas - Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is asking a full federal appeals court to reconsider its decision to uphold a ruling that prevents the state from enforcing a 2023 law that would allow local police to arrest people they believe crossed the Texas-Mexico border illegally.

"Radical open border activists have sought to undermine Texas’s right to defend itself, but I will never stop fighting to close the border and equip state law enforcement with the power to ensure border security," Paxton said.

In a filing on Thursday, Paxton argues that the panel's July ruling stating the U.S. Constitution covered the entirety of immigration enforcement goes against precedent set by the Supreme Court.

"The panel's holding deprives Texas – and every other State – of the p

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