Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier (R) asked the Supreme Court on Monday to allow the state to enforce its new immigration law as an appeal plays out in a lower court.

The new law, S.B. 4-C, makes it a state crime for people to enter Florida after arriving in the U.S. illegally and evading immigration authorities.

"Illegal immigration continues to wreak havoc in the State while that law cannot be enforced," Uthmeier's office wrote in the application.

"And without this Court’s intervention, Florida and its citizens will remain disabled from combatting the serious harms of illegal immigration for........

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