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.

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 Thursday.

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.

Sakeik was released Monday from the Prairieland Detention Center. She had been arrested in February while returning from a honeymoon trip to the U.S. Virgin Islands with her husband. Although the islands are a U.S. territory, she was flagged by Customs and Border Protection upon reentry.

A newlywed Texas woman who was detained by immigration authorities en route from her honeymoon has been released after almost five months, her attorneys announced Wednesday. Ward Sakeik, who is Palestinian,

Ward Sakeik was released Tuesday night from the Prairieland Detention Center, located just south from her Arlington home.