The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling means that Senate Bill 4, which allows local police to arrest suspected undocumented immigrants, continues to be blocked.

A federal appeals court has upheld the block on Texas's SB 4, a law that would allow local police to arrest individuals suspected of illegally crossing the Texas-Mexico border.

By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -Texas authorities may not enforce a Republican-backed state law that would let them arrest and prosecute people suspected of illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, a divided federal appeals court ruled late on Thursday.

President Trump and Republicans in Congress are celebrating this holiday weekend after both the House and Senate passed what they call the "One Big Beautiful Bill." The President signed the legislation into law at the White House Friday.