On Wednesday, the Biden-Harris administration was blocked by a federal appeals court from tearing down a razor wire fence erected by Texas officials along the U.S.-Mexico border.
The New Orleans-based 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in a 2-1 decision that Texas has a “likely chance of success” in a lawsuit alleging that cutting the bellows wire would violate state law. The court ruled that it was “high.” It was installed in Eagle Pass, a hotspot for human and drug smuggling, to combat illegal border crossings.
“Texas is not seeking to 'regulate' the Border Patrol, only to protect Texas' own property.” The Fifth Circuit's decision states:
The Biden-Harris administration has argued that Border Patrol agents must be able to penetrate barbed wire in order to fulfill their mission of “securing the border to prevent the illegal entry of aliens into the United States.” .
Texas says federal authorities cut the chain-link fence “for no apparent purpose other than to facilitate the entry of migrants into the interior” and that the fence does not impede the Border Patrol's mission. did.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, celebrated the ruling and vowed to install more fencing.
“A federal appeals court has ruled that Texas had the right to build a border wall made of razor wire that it built to deny illegal entry into Texas, and that Biden was wrong to cut the razor wire.'' It has just been decided.” Abbott wrote about X.
“We will continue to add more razor wire border barriers,” he added.
Abbott previously said that 49 miles of fence and floating buoy barriers along the Rio Grande have blocked nearly all illegal border crossings at Shelby Park, which has been the epicenter of millions of illegal border crossings since President Biden took office. He claimed that it helped him get rid of it.
The bellows wire fencing, buoy barriers and other measures that Mr. Abbott has deployed to combat illegal immigration are no exception to the number of orders from the Biden-Harris administration, which maintains that the federal government has the sole authority to enforce immigration laws. facing legal challenges.
