Appeals Court Halts Biden-Harris Admin From Ripping Down Razor-Wire Fencing Along Texas Border; Texas Has Right to Build Razor Wire Border Wall, Appeals Court Rules

Appeals court halts Biden-Harris admin from ripping down razor-wire fencing along Texas border:

The Biden-Harris administration was blocked from destroying razor-wire fencing Texas officials placed along the US-Mexico border by a federal appeals court Wednesday.

In a 2-1 decision, the New Orleans-based 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Texas “will likely succeed” in a lawsuit arguing that the federal government would be in violation of state trespassing laws if it were to cut down concertina wire placed in Eagle Pass — a hot spot for human and drug smuggling — in an effort to combat illegal border-crossings.

“Texas is seeking, not to ‘regulate’ Border Patrol, but only to safeguard its own property,” the 5th Circuit’s ruling stated.

The Biden-Harris administration had argued that Border Patrol agents need to be able to cut through the razor-wire fence to fulfill their duty of “patrolling the border to prevent the illegal entry of aliens into the United States.”

Texas claimed that federal authorities were cutting the wire fencing “for no apparent purpose other than to allow migrants easier entrance further inland” and that the barrier did not interfere with Border Patrol’s duties.

Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott celebrated the ruling and vowed to install more fencing.

“The federal court of appeals just ruled that Texas has the right to build the razor wire border wall that we have constructed to deny illegal entry into our state and that Biden was wrong to cut our razor wire,” Abbott wrote on X.

“We continue adding more razor wire border barrier,” he added. —>READ MORE HERE

Texas has right to build razor wire border wall, appeals court rules:

A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that the Biden administration overstepped when it tried to dismantle Texas’ razor-wire border fence.

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered Homeland Security to refrain from cutting through the wire in the area around Eagle Pass, a Texas border town that had been the scene of a major clash between the state and the Biden administration.

But the judges also ordered Texas to allow the feds access to Shelby Park, a site Texas National Guard troops took over earlier this year as part of the clash with Homeland Security.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott hailed the ruling.

“We continue adding more razor wire border barrier,” the Republican said on social media.

In the 2-1 ruling, the appeals court said Texas had a right to protect its property and that trumped the Biden administration’s complaints about trampling on federal immigration prerogatives or interfering with relations with Mexico.

The judges also spanked Homeland Security for wrongly blaming some migrant drownings on Texas’s stiff border measures.

Federal officials had claimed Texas “barred” Border Patrol agents from being able to attempt a rescue. That may have been a factor in the Supreme Court’s decision to issue a ruling in January, siding with the Biden administration.

Later developments in the case, however, proved the Biden claims were overblown and, in fact, the drownings were not connected to the state’s control of Shelby Park.

“Texas’s move into the park, it turned out, had only a marginal effect on Border Patrol’s access and had nothing to do with the drownings,” Judge Stuart Kyle Duncan wrote in the majority opinion. —>READ MORE HERE

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