Texas State Authority over Sanctuary Cities and Texas Bill of Rights

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Texas state authority over sanctuary cities
The state of Texas had passed a law that allowed the police officers to question the status
of immigration for the individual they had detained or arrested. The rule also gave the police
power to punish electoral officials who failed to adhere to federal immigration request by agents
to turn over the immigrant issue to be deported (Aguilar, 2018). The punishment was either in
cash or jail term. The spirit of federalism puts this law on hold because it violated the fourth
amendment. According to the judgment, the public interest is to protect the constitutional right,
avoid heavy burdens, and to build rapport with the locals (Motomura, 2015). This law imposes a
heavy burden on the local.
Texas Bill of Rights
The constitution was amended to provide the right to the unborn child and to do away
with abortion fully possible (Justia Law, 2018). This right prohibits abortion in Texas unless it is
a rape or medical emergency is needed. This bill burns abortion after five months of pregnancy
and requires abortion clinics to update to the standards as hospital-style surgical centers and
mandates that the doctor admits privileges at clinics near the facilities they do abortion. The bill
also required clinics without required standard be closed or renovated to the standard of
ambulatory surgery centers. This made some clinics to be closed since it was expensive to
renovate or to relocate (Texas abortion law, 2017). Clinics, which used to import doctors, were
also to be closed since it was not as per the requirement of the law. The spirit of Texas
constitution was therefore used in providing legislative efforts to limit abortion without federal
interference