Overview

• In a one-sentence July 9 order, the Supreme Court refused to lift the injunction blocking SB 4-C, leaving the law unenforceable.
• SB 4-C, enacted in February, imposes mandatory prison terms of nine months to five years for unauthorized entry or reentry into Florida.
• U.S. District Judge Kathleen M. Williams issued the preliminary injunction in April after finding the state statute likely intruded on federal immigration power.
• The 11th Circuit upheld Williams’s block in June and held Attorney General James Uthmeier in civil contempt for instructing enforcement despite the court order.
• With the injunction intact, Florida must submit biweekly reports on any enforcement actions and press its appeal through the 11th Circuit and district court.