Texas seeks court block on Biden administration's destruction of border fencing

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Source: Reuters

June 6, 2024 2:29 PM EDT Updated an hour ago


June 6 (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Thursday seemed open to barring the Biden administration from destroying razor-wire fencing that Texas placed along its border with Mexico while the Republican-led state pursues a lawsuit accusing the federal government of trespassing.

A three-judge panel of the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments for nearly an hour in an appeal by Texas of a judge's ruling that said the state's trespassing law cannot be applied to the federal government and U.S. immigration authorities were immune from the state's lawsuit.

Texas sued the Biden administration last year after federal border agents stepped up their practice of using bolt cutters and forklifts to cut or remove wire fencing along a 29-mile stretch of the Rio Grande where many migrants cross the border illegally.

A 5th Circuit panel in December paused the judge's ruling and barred the destruction of the fencing pending the state's appeal, saying the Biden administration was not immune from the lawsuit. The U.S. Supreme Court paused that decision a few weeks later while the litigation proceeded. Two of the three judges who heard arguments on Thursday were on the panel that issued the December ruling in favor of Texas.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/legal/texas-seeks-court-block-biden-administrations-destruction-border-fencing-2024-06-06/

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1. The razor wire is not needed acc to Trump.

Republicans/Abbot: why are you letting all these immigrants in?

And then whining about it.

Donald said the wall is complete.

You know; the wall that was to keep them from coming in.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/15/politics/fact-check-trump-announcement-speech-2024/index.html

“We built the wall, and now we will add to it. Now, we built the wall – we completed the wall – and then we said let’s do more, and we did a lot more."