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Speaker 1: Now it's time for our daily Bloomberg Lab Brief, exploring

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Speaker 1: legal issues in the news, and today Bloomberg La host

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Speaker 1: Reg Store discusses a court decision in Texas blocking the

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Speaker 1: state's plans to punish so called sanctuary cities if they

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Speaker 1: provide help to immigrants living in the US illegally. He

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Speaker 1: speaks with Rick Sue, a professor at the University of

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Speaker 1: Buffalo School of Law. Rick, why did Texas pass this measure?

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Speaker 1: What did it say it was trying to accomplish? Um,

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Speaker 1: More specifically, it's trying to go after so called sanctuary cities.

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Speaker 1: And of course this issue of sanctuary cities, though not

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Speaker 1: necessarily knew, has really sort of taken on front stage

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Speaker 1: and the immigration debates in recent years. UM. What precipitated

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Speaker 1: directly was the actions in the policies passed by Travis County,

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Speaker 1: which is compasses Austin, which really raised the ire of

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Speaker 1: the governor and many of the state legislatures. And as

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Speaker 1: the court case notes, UH, much of us before was

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Speaker 1: directed towards attacking particular local officials. UH with with with

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Speaker 1: certain number of penalties for not participating in immigration enforcement. Rick,

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Speaker 1: let's talk a little bit about the specifics of this ruling, UH,

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Speaker 1: what would you say is the most important part of it.

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Speaker 1: I think what's vital to recognize is the degree to

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Speaker 1: which the court really called out uh s before which

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Speaker 1: is the state law that we're talking about in this case,

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Speaker 1: for how extraordinary it actually is, and there are various

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Speaker 1: components that I think really made it a strong case,

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Speaker 1: at least in the eyes of the judge in this case. UH,

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Speaker 1: the degree to which this particular penalty goes after individual

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Speaker 1: policymakers and lawmakers and these jurisdictions with civil penalties, criminal

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Speaker 1: penalties and removal from office, along with the fact that UH,

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Speaker 1: it really removes a lot of discretion and gets us

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Speaker 1: back into the debate of whether or not the local

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Speaker 1: and state governments have the power to enforce civil immigration laws,

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Speaker 1: especially in light of the fact that many of the

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Speaker 1: request made by the thorough government black UM UH probably

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Speaker 1: cause to issue a warrant, which is traditionally the constitutional

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Speaker 1: requirement for local law enforcement to arrest and then detain

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Speaker 1: someone in custody. As Rich Sue, our professor at the

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Speaker 1: University of Buffalo School of Law, speaking with Bloomberg LA

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