The Biden administration asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to allow the Border Patrol to remove barbed wire installed along the Texas-Mexico border by state authorities.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last month issued an order blocking the Biden administration from removing the wire while it considers the appeal from Texas. The Department of Homeland Security asked the Supreme Court in an emergency application Tuesday to freeze the order, arguing that federal law grants agents authority to access private lands near the border.
“Like other law-enforcement officers, Border Patrol agents operating under difficult circumstances at the border must make context-dependent, sometimes split-second decisions about how to enforce federal immigration laws while maintaining public safety,” Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar wrote in the Supreme Court filing….
