The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily blocked the federal government from removing razor wire barriers placed at the border by Texas authorities. The court ruled that the government cannot “damage, destroy, or otherwise interfere” with the concertina wire (razor wire) fence erected in the Eagle Pass area. The exception is a medical emergency.
Texas sued the Biden administration in October when Border Patrol agents began cutting or damaging the 29 miles of razor wire along the border to allow illegal immigrants to enter deeper into the state, and then the U.S. In other words, the state is trying to prevent the federal government from destroying state property.
” By cutting Texas’s concertina wire, the federal government has not only illegally destroyed property owned by the State of Texas; it has also disrupted the State’s border security efforts, leaving gaps…
