Miami, Fla. – The ACLU is reporting {that a} federal courtroom has granted a short lived restraining order blocking enforcement of an anti-immigrant legislation that created new state crimes concentrating on immigrants getting into and dwelling in Florida.
The U.S. District Court docket, Southern District of Florida in Miami dominated that the plaintiffs are possible to achieve displaying that SB 4-C is unconstitutional.
Plaintiffs embody two people, the Florida Immigrant Coalition and the Farmworker Affiliation of Florida.
The courtroom discovered the legislation possible violates the Supremacy Clause and the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Structure in that it encroaches upon an solely federal energy to regulate immigration and the motion of interstate commerce.
SB 4-C created sweeping state crimes that made it a felony for sure immigrants to enter Florida and mandated jail time with out bond.
Plaintiffs argued that the legislation positioned Floridians liable to arrest and detention below an unconstitutional legislation.
Learn extra particulars here, which features a hyperlink to the lawsuit.
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