By Daniel Wiessner

(Reuters) - A federal judge in Texas on Thursday blocked the Republican-led state's new law giving officials broad powers to arrest, prosecute and order the removal of people who illegally cross the U.S.-Mexico border.

U.S. District Judge David Ezra in Austin, Texas, agreed with the administration of Democratic President Joe Biden that the law known as SB4 interferes with the federal government's powers to enforce U.S. immigration laws and the ability of migrants to apply for asylum and other humanitarian aid.

(Reporting by Daniel Wiessner in Albany, New York)