Simply underscoring how ridiculous the Southwest border has become.
A dispute between the Biden administration and the state of Texas over a concertina wire barrier along 29 miles of the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass, Texas, now appears to be headed to the Supreme Court.
This spat has its genesis in "Operation Lone Star", a Texas state initiative launched in March 2021 by Gov. Greg Abbott to support Border Patrol agents who were being overwhelmed by a increasing surge in migrants that began after President Biden's inauguration.
Texas supports legal immigration but will not be an accomplice to the open border policies that cause, rather than prevent, a humanitarian crisis in our state and endanger the lives of Texans.
Lone Star is primarily staffed by state troopers from the Texas Department of Public Safety and National Guard troops from the Texas Military Department.
For reasons that remain unclear the Biden administration has taken a dimmer view of the c-wire barrier the state of Texas has erected in Maverick County, Texas, generally, and near Eagle Pass in particular, areas the Fifth Circuit described as "The epicenter of the present migrant influx" because "Nearly a quarter of migrant entries into the United States happen there".
There are likely any number of objective observers who wouldn't mind leaving the Biden administration's border policies "At the mercy of" the states, but the SG - craftily - offered California's attempt to bar private immigration detention facilities in the Golden State as an example.
As noted no one involved in this case - and certainly not the state of Texas - denies that it's okay for CBP to cut the wire to save migrants' lives.
https://cis.org/Arthur/Bidens-DOJ-Asks-SCOTUS-Intervene-Texas-Wire-Barrier-Spat
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