‘The Fight Is Not Over’: Texas Won’t Give Up on Securing Its Borders After SCOTUS Unfavorable Ruling

The state of Texas will not give up on its efforts to secure its borders after the Supreme Court ruled that the federal government had the right to intervene.

In a ruling on Tuesday, the Supreme Court decided by a 5-4 majority that federal officials had the right to remove physical barriers erected by the Texas National Guard.

Two supposedly conservative judges, Justices John Roberts and Amy Coney Barett, sided with the Biden administration, while Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Brett Kavanaugh, and Neil Gorsuch dissented.

The decision vacated a previous injunction from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that prevented federal agents from cutting the wire.

However, the Texas Tribune reports that both Gov. Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton will refuse to back down over the issue and will carry on fighting to secure the southern border from the waves of illegal immigration.

“The Biden Administration has repeatedly cut wire that Texas installed to stop illegal crossings, opening the floodgates to illegal immigrants,” Andrew Mahaleris, a spokesperson for Abbott told the Tribune.

“The absence of razor wire and other deterrence strategies encourages migrants to make unsafe and illegal crossings between ports of entry, while making the job of Texas National Guard soldiers and DPS troopers more dangerous and difficult," the spokesperson added. “This case is ongoing, and Governor Abbott will continue fighting to defend Texas' property and its constitutional authority to secure the border.”

Meanwhile, Paxton similarly warned that the “fight is not over” against the Biden administration’s unwillingness to stop the millions of people illegally entering the country each year.

“The Supreme Court’s temporary order allows Biden to continue his illegal effort to aid the foreign invasion of America,” Paxton said in a statement. “The destruction of Texas’ border barriers will not help enforce the law or keep American citizens safe. This fight is not over, and I look forward to defending our state’s sovereignty.”

The legal battle began last September when Abbott declared a state of emergency over the ongoing illegal immigration crisis, which allowed the mobilization of the Texas National Guard to help secure the border.

This was done through the putting up of miles of concertina wire as well as the placement of buoys in the Rio Grande as barriers.

After Border Patrol agents responded by tearing down parts of a wire barrier, Texas sued the Department of Homeland Security, arguing that they had vandalized state property and interfered with their efforts to enforce the law.

“By cutting Texas’s concertina wire, the federal government has not only illegally destroyed property owned by the State of Texas; it has also disrupted the State’s border security efforts, leaving gaps in Texas’s border barriers and damaging Texas’s ability to effectively deter illegal entry into its territory,” the complaint stated at the time.

Last September, The New York Post reported that a staggering 3.8 million illegal immigrants were admitted into the U.S. since Joe Biden took office in January 2021. Nearly half of those entrants have done so without detection and have yet to be apprehended.

RE: Gee who nominated Barrett? Oh yeah Trump!

There are no guarantees in life, especially when it comes to the internal character of a person you decide to nominate or hire or be part of the team or even marry.

When it comes to judges, you have nothing to rely on but past records, recommendations, opinions, writings and STATED principles. Barrett on paper, looked good. That’s all we have to work on.

Even Jesus had his Judas.

2020? Oh we are starting the was it stolen argument? This line of argument seems to occur on FR frequently when Trump is discussed. I have no proof either way. Yes shady things did happen like data dumps and the boxes of ballots under tables in Fulton Co Georgia. But they didn’t make it to court so they can’t be used a proof. In the case of the Fulton County Ga hidden boxes state officials swore in court docs no cheating occurred. Frances Watson…I know she is “ Secretary of State chief investigator Frances Watson” but who is she in terms of her past? I searched and can’t find much on her. She swore the ballots were only stored and not fraudulent and her boss Brad Rafensberger, a Republican, backed her up. It seems to me with Trump AGAIN becoming our nomination these questions also AGAIN become very important. https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/president-donald-trump-called-state-investigator-and-urged-her-to-find-fraudulent-votes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Raffensperger Here she is: Frances Watson with Trump. Does anyone know much about her? Is she a Dem or Republican?

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