What people don't seem to understand is that a fence in not meant to keep aliens out. It's decorative.
What right do we have to secure our border? To deny anyone access to our country, terrorist, criminal or not is a crime against humanity...I'm right on that yes?
Supreme Court allows federal agents to cut razor wire Texas installed on US-Mexico border
By Alex Oliveira, NY Post
Published Jan. 22, 2024
A divided Supreme Court passed a measure allowing federal border agents to remove razor wire installed by Texas along its US-Mexico border — the latest volley in an ongoing legal battle between President Biden and Governor Greg Abbott over border security.
Justices voted 5-4 on Monday to vacate a December injunction blocking Customs and Border Protection (CBP) from removing Texas-installed barriers, allowing the removals to move ahead along a 30-mile stretch near Eagle Pass.
Their vote was divided largely along party lines, with Justices Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Thomas voting to deny the vacation. Conservative Justice Coney Barrett, however, along with Justice Roberts, voted in favor of the motion.
Biden and Abbott have been lobbing lawsuits back and forth for months over the wire installed along the fraught stretch of Eagle Pass, which has become the epicenter of the migrant crisis in Texas.
Blaming the president for failing to take aggressive action to secure the southern border, Abbott has undertaken aggressive border security measures like using state troops to seize Eagle Pass land along the Rio Grande and installing barriers like razor wire.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) sued to lift the December injunction on January 2, arguing that CBP had the authority “without warrant” to access all land within 25 miles of the border and that the wire was preventing the agency from fulfilling its duties.
“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,” the DOJ said in its suit.
“The injunction prohibits agents from passing through or moving physical obstacles erected by the State that prevent access to the very border they are charged with patrolling and the individuals they are charged with apprehending and inspecting.
December’s injunction was granted by the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in response to a suit filed by Texas in October seeking to block CBP from removing the wire.
Governor Abbott did not respond to requests for comment at the time of publication.
“Texas was finally beginning to regain control of its border with Mexico when it took matters into its own hands. The Biden Administration is going to do anything that it can to destroy America’s sovereignty,” said Rep. Andy Biggs, (R-Ariz.) in a post on X.
The razor wire spat is just the latest to arise between Biden and Abbott.
Earlier in January, on the same day the suit to lift the December injunction was filed, the DOJ sued Texas over a new law allowing state officials to arrest people found to have illegally entered the country.
The law, SB4, makes entering the US illegally a state crime and allows state officials to undertake deportation. It was signed in December and is set to go into effect in March.
As seen from an aerial view a U.S. Border Patrol agent supervises as immigrants walk into the United States after crossing the Rio Grande from Mexico on September 30, 2023.
“Texas cannot run its own immigration system,” the DOJ said in its filing, arguing it would impede with the federal governments immigration processes and international relations.
In response to that suit, Governor Abbott said “I like my chances” in an X post.
“Texas is the only government in America trying to stop illegal immigration,” he added.
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