Posted on 01/02/2024 1:07:25 PM PST by Red Badger
The Biden administration asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to lift an injunction imposed by an appeals court that allows Texas to keep wire barriers at the southern border, arguing the barriers inhibit Border Patrol agents from crossing.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit in December halted a lower court order that gave Border Patrol agents the green light to cut concertina wire that Texas put in place along the banks of the Rio Grande.
"Texas's placement of the wire near the riverbank in Eagle Pass has proved particularly problematic for Border Patrol agents," the Justice Department wrote in its petition Tuesday.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued the Biden administration in October, arguing that Border Patrol agents wrongfully destroyed state property when its agents cut through the concertina wire, allegedly to “assist” immigrants to “illegally cross” the border.
The Biden administration contends that Border Patrol agents cut the wire to give medical assistance to immigrants who had already crossed the Rio Grande into U.S. territory, saying at that point, the immigrants must be apprehended, according to court records.
The Texas Military Department has placed up to 70,000 rolls of wire into different parts of the Texas-Mexico border to deter immigrants from crossing, and it says such efforts are necessary to combat alleged mismanagement of the crisis by the federal government.
Read the petition in full:
SCRIBD Document at link......................
This is a developing story and will be updated.
He hates us
I guess it would be good for them to get their hands dirty.
Thats some headline. Do they expect Sonya Sotomayor to head down to Texas with a pair of wire cutters?
Remember, woke, permanent, DC Neo-marxist apparatchiks HATE you with red-hot rage. This was planned in advance and started day one of the Biden puppet regime
This is their revenge on America for voting for Trump, and on conservatives, Christians, whites and other assorted deplorables
Gov. Abbott needs to send the buses to Washington DC - if they object, call them bigots, racists and cold hearted for not accepting infinity illegal invaders - as he and the taxpayers in his state are expected to do.
arguing the barriers inhibit Border Patrol agents from crossing.
They are seriously arguing, that these barriers inhibit the Border Patrol from doing their jobs, when the policies of this administration have inhibited them doing their jobs? What the heck?
Do they expect Sonya Sotomayor to head down to Texas with a pair of wire cutters?
The wide latina would seal the border by herself by just standing there. LOL
How pathetic to ask the Supreme Court’s ruling on this.
And reading material in a box marked 'classified'. And its safe to do so as long as the garage is locked.
A number of Justices could be heard saying, “Get you momma to take down the razor wire.”
This was supposed to flip Texas to blue and would have if it weren’t for Gov. Abbot’s actions.
The Dems did not expect the Blue state to become bluer.
All They accomplished was to piss their own voters off...........
“The wide latina would seal the border by herself by just standing there. LOL”
Based on her politics she would volunteer to serve as a land bridge to bring more in.
This isn’t a case the Supremes should take. This is legislative.
He has been sending them, but DC is difficult to get into for a car, let alone a bus, due to traffic.
Now the demented WH Jackass is telling Texans that they can’t put up fences. Screw you Slick!
The Republicans need to ask the Supreme Court to remove all the fencing around the White House and do it now.
One word: Desperation.
Many of those “border agents” are themselves anchor babies (born to illegal alien parents). They have skin in the game.
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