The Texas Attorney General has filed a lawsuit over the breach of the state's controversial razor wire, strung along the border in key areas to deter immigration
October 24, 2023 at 3:29 pm PDTFILE - Birds rest on concertina wire along the Rio Grande in Eagle Pass,Texas, July 6, 2023. Texas sued the Biden administration Tuesday, Oct. 24, seeking to stop federal agents from cutting the state's razor wire that has gashed or snagged migrants as they have attempted to enter the U.S. from Mexico at the Rio Grande.
“Texas has the sovereign right to construct border barriers to prevent the entry of illegal aliens,” Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general, said in a news release Tuesday.in May before the end of Title 42, a temporary emergency health authority used to turn migrants back during the pandemic. The sharp wire was deployed in areas of high traffic through the Rio Grande at the border near such locations as Brownsville and Eagle Pass, Texas.
Migrant and environmental advocates quickly raised concerns over the damaging effects of the razor wire, which were also raised internally by those charged with enforcing its use. A state trooper and medic described the use of their border tactics as"inhumane" in July when he sent an internal complaint documenting cases ofThe barrier is set up a few yards from the river or sometimes at the edge of it and would keep migrants in the water, sometimes for hours, waiting for U.S.
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