Texas has rejected the federal government's request for access to a border park at the center of one of the ongoing disputes between the states and the Biden administration over immigration enforcement while the union representing the U.S. Border Patrol has said agents will not be pitted against state agents working to secure America's southern border.
Fox News reported that after the U.S. Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling last week allowing federal border-patrol agents to cut down razor wire erected by the state around Shelby Park, an area near the Rio Grande River that sees heavy illegal alien traffic, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security requested in writing that it be given access to the park, with a response demanded by Friday.
Texas Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton responded first by telling Fox News the state has no plans to comply, then with a letter formally rejecting the demand, citing the assessment that the federal government's latest letter "Abandons earlier factual assertions, asserts new ones, and supplies even less of a legal basis," the Western Journal reported.
"As I said before, this office will continue to defend Texas's efforts to protect its southern border against every effort by the Biden Administration to undermine the State's constitutional right of self-defense," Paxton told DHS attorney Jonathan Meyer.
The Journal added that the National Border Patrol Council, the official union of U.S. Border Patrol Agents, weighed in January 26 with a statement that federal and state border agents "Work together and respect each other's jobs," and the former were not about to start arresting the latter for following lawful orders.
"Lawful orders, no matter how unpopular or distasteful amongst rank-and-file agents, must be followed. Unlawful orders will not be followed," the NBPC said.
"Rank-and-file BP agents appreciate and respect what TX has been doing to defend their state in the midst of this catastrophe that the Biden Admin has unleashed on America."
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