Following his victory in an impeachment attempt led by Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan, Attorney General Ken Paxton of Texas is now pursuing legal action against the Biden Administration. Paxton files a lawsuit opposing the federal Border Patrol agents’ removal of razor wire and border barrier. The Biden Administration has responded by suing Texas multiple times in an effort to stop the flow of unauthorized immigrants across the southern border.
Paxton sues the Department of Homeland Security and the United States in court. Border Patrol and Customs for removing state-imposed border barriers. The complaint focuses on the wrongful destruction of property held by Texas and how it has harmed the state’s border security operations. Texas’ ability to successfully dissuade illegal entrance has been undermined by the federal government by cutting Texas’ concertina wire, which has left breaches in the border walls. To remedy these issues, a lawsuit was filed earlier this week.
“Texas brings this lawsuit to end this ongoing, unlawful practice which undermines its border security efforts. This Court can and should enjoin the federal defendants from continuing to destroy and damage private property that is not theirs—without statutory authority and in violation of both state and federal law,” the suit argues.
Texas takes action by erecting razor wire barrier at the Eagle Pass border crossing to deter unauthorized entry. Unsettling footage have emerged, however, showing Border Patrol officials purposefully chopping down the wall to allow illegal immigrants free passage.
A Border Patrol agent joyfully fist-bumped a migrant as they crossed the border in a startling event.
Officials from the Border Patrol claim that when migrants are found, it is legally required to detain them. In instances when fencing has been crossed, authorities contend that migrants were already in the country and must therefore have been forced to pass the barriers.
“The reality of the law is that once they’re in the United States, they have to be taken into custody, that barbed wire is in the United States, it’s already inland,” The National Border Patrol Council’s vice president, Art Del Cueto, told News Nation last month. The agents’ responsibility is to detain and take control of those people once they reach the barbed wire.
The Texas complaint emphasizes the use of razor wire fencing by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in the past to prevent unauthorized crossings. Attorney General Paxton emphasized that this wire was put in place in September, a time when migrant crossings at the Eagle Pass border crossing had significantly increased.
“That two-week surge in Eagle Pass is roughly the same as the total number of alien apprehensions for the entire Del Rio Sector for the entire year in each of 2009, 2010, 2011, 2017, and 2018,” the lawsuit reads.
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Instances where Border Patrol or other government personnel intervened to remove obstacles along the southern border are cited in the lawsuit. “As a result of Defendants’ destruction of concertina wire, Plaintiff has suffered and continues to suffer harm and a real and immediate threat of repeated injury in the future. Plaintiff owns the concertina wire that has been placed in border locations and Defendants’ repeated destruction of Plaintiff’s property has diminished Texas’s efforts to secure the border, increasing its costs for providing healthcare, public education, incarceration, and driver’s licenses,” the lawsuit says.
After taking legal action, Paxton makes a public statement reiterating Texas’s claim to have the right to protect its border with Mexico.
“Americans across the country were horrified to watch Biden’s open-border policy in action: agents were physically cutting wires and assisting the aliens’ entry into our state. This is illegal. It puts our country and our citizens at risk,” he said. “The courts must put a stop to it, or Biden’s free-for-all will make this crushing immigration crisis drastically worse.”
A water barrier on the Rio Grande river close to Eagle Pass has Texas and the Biden administration at odds. Texas is said to have violated federal laws by the federal government, which asserts sole control over international borders.
The barrier may be left in place while the case is still pending, according to the federal appeal court.
