Biden administration asks Supreme Court to remove razor wire at southern border
Kaelan Deese
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The Biden administration asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to lift an injunction imposed by an appeals court that allows Texas to keep wire barriers at the southern border, arguing the barriers inhibit Border Patrol agents from crossing.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit in December halted a lower court order that gave Border Patrol agents the green light to cut concertina wire that Texas put in place along the banks of the Rio Grande.
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“Texas’s placement of the wire near the riverbank in Eagle Pass has proved particularly problematic for Border Patrol agents,” the Justice Department wrote in its petition Tuesday.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued the Biden administration in October, arguing that Border Patrol agents wrongfully destroyed state property when its agents cut through the concertina wire, allegedly to “assist” immigrants to “illegally cross” the border.
The Biden administration contends that Border Patrol agents cut the wire to give medical assistance to immigrants who had already crossed the Rio Grande into U.S. territory, saying at that point, the immigrants must be apprehended, according to court records.
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The Texas Military Department has placed up to 70,000 rolls of wire into different parts of the Texas-Mexico border to deter immigrants from crossing, and it says such efforts are necessary to combat alleged mismanagement of the crisis by the federal government.
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