Supreme Court declines to let Florida enforce its new immigration law

The law signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis makes it a state crime to enter Florida after coming into the United States illegally, and to re-enter the state following deportation.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to take up a request from Florida to block a lower court's decision that bars the state from enforcing parts of its new immigration law.

The one-sentence order did not say why the court denied the emergency request from Florida's attorney general.

The case stemmed from a challenge by two immigration groups and two undocumented immigrants to legislation that Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law this year making it a crime to enter Florida after having come into the United States illegally and re-entering the state after having been deported.

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U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams temporarily blocked enforcement of the law in April, and last month she found Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier in civil contempt over what she said was an effort to defy her order.