Texas plans to let LOCAL cops arrest migrants flooding over Mexico border with controversial new immigration bill - after it sparked outrage in Arizona where Hispanic Americans were racially profiled

Texas' governor is poised to sign what's been called one of the 'most radical immigration laws EVER', by opponents like the ACLU.

SB4 has already been approved by the state legislature and Gov. Greg Abbott has promised to sign the bill-- that allows local and state police to make immigration arrests-- into law.

Once it's signed into law in early March, the controversial legislation will allow local cops to stop anyone suspected of entering the Lone Star State illegally and ask for proof they have the right to be here.

Those caught in the US illegally would face up to 6 months in jail for the first offense and 2-20 years for subsequent entries. 

'Texas politicians just passed one of the country’s most radical anti-immigrant laws — EVER,' the ACLU of Texas blasted the state's Republican lawmakers online.

'This legislation is white supremacy in action that will encourage racial profiling and separate Texas families. If Gov. Abbott signs #SB4 into law, we’ll sue.'

The liberal organization worries US citizens who are Hispanic will be profiled based on how they look or language they speak. 

'This is not targeting anyone; we’re trying to stop the flow of illegal immigration through our state and into our state from a foreign country, and we have every right to do that,” Republican Representative David Spiller, who sponsored SB4, told NewsNation.

Spiller and other Texas Republicans argue they have to do something since more than 3.8 million migrants have crossed into Texas illegally since Pres. Joe Biden took office in 2021, according to federal statistics. 

'I think worth noting is the fact that this is a misdemeanor. We’re not trying to round up folks that have been here for years,” Spiller said. 

Enforcement would most likely happen in the first 50 miles north of the border, Spiller added.

'Anyone that’s been here longer than two years, three years, five years, 10 years, 20 years, 50 years, they can’t be charged with this offense,' he explained.

'I’m not saying that it couldn’t happen in Dallas, Fort Worth or Houston, but I am saying that the most likely scenario would be that it would be at or near the border.' 

There are also legal concerns about how the bill allows charges against an illegal immigrant to be dropped if they agree to voluntarily return to Mexico. 

Many of the migrants crossing into Texas now are not Mexican. 

In October, Venezuelans beat out Mexicans as the top nationality encountered by the US Border Patrol for the first time ever.

Mexico is also not obligated to take in migrants who are not Mexican citizens. 

The Texas law 'attempts to set up its own system of deportation…its own system of judges determining who's allowed to stay and who has to go,' Thomas A. Saenz, president of the Mexican American Legal and Educational Fund (MALDEF), told Axios.

Crossing into the US illegally is already a federal crime.

The US Supreme Court has already ruled that enforcing immigration laws has been reserved for federal immigration officers, not for local police. 

After Arizona passed a similar 'show me your papers' law in 2010, SB 1070, the state was sued. 

Ultimately, the Supreme Court ruled in 2012 that local police didn’t have the authority to arrest someone only on their immigration status since that's the job of the federal government.

All Arizona cops could do if they encountered an illegal immigrant in Arizona was hold them and them turn them over to US Border Patrol. 

Some believe Texas lawmakers are trying to challenge the Arizona v US ruling, especially since the high court is more conservative now than in 2012.