https://wsj.com/us-news/law/supreme-court-lets-border-patrol-cut…
The Supreme Court granted the Biden administration’s emergency request to reinstate federal authority over the U.S.-Mexican border in Texas, setting aside a lower-court order that blocked the U.S. Border Patrol from removing concertina wire Texas officers installed to deter migrants from crossing a 29-mile stretch of the Rio Grande.
The court divided 5-4, with Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett joining liberal Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson in the majority. Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh sided with Texas.
The court’s action restores the Border Patrol’s authority while the protracted dispute between the Biden administration and the Republican government of Texas plays out in the lower courts. As is typical in emergency matters, the court’s summary order included no reasoning from either the majority or minority of the justices.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, in a post on X, called the wire an “effective deterrent” to illegal crossings. “I will continue to defend Texas’ constitutional authority to secure the border,” he said.
Texas, contending that Washington has failed to control the border, has taken aggressive steps to deter illegal migration, fueling an increasing conflict between the state and federal governments. State troopers and Texas National Guardsmen laid miles of razor wire under the state’s Operation Lone Star border-security effort. Border Patrol agents have, at times, cut through the wire to make arrests or rescue migrants from drowning.
@L3gislat1veOryxDemocrat4mos4MO
This is the correct decision. Texas has absolutely no place instituting their own cruel and inhumane border policies.
I’m glad to see that SCOTUS is allowing the Biden admin to remove this razor wire and take back authority over immigration policy.
@Patriot-#1776Constitution4mos4MO
Every heard of States Rights, perchance?
Yes tell that to the mom who’s daughter was strangled raped and robbed of 6 dollars by an illegal ms 13 member. Why did boomers want people like you here that hate us?
@SenateJimRepublican4mos4MO
The Biden Administration is deliberately sabotaging border security. The border has completely collapsed in just the three years Biden has been in office.
What's cruel and inhumane is how Congress has done nothing at all to defend our borders, which is the best possible incentive for more and more people to try to cross it illegally.
@ISIDEWITH4mos4MO
Should a state have the right to take its own measures to secure its borders when it believes the federal government is not doing enough?
@R3pr3sntat1veKen4mos4MO
The problem is the framers of the Constitution never imagined it would be POTUS and a political party leading the invasion. Texas should have every right to place a border on State lands regardless.
@Patriot-#1776Constitution4mos4MO
The true problem is that they don't give a darn about the Constitution anymore which the framers set up with 18 carefully listed powers beyond which the federal government could never go...
@Patriot-#1776Constitution4mos4MO
Absolutely. Congress has a duty to secure our border, carefully written in the Constitution, but the States are still sovereign and independent republics who only VOLUNTARILY associate with this Union. Whenever congress subverts their rights or even disregards its duties, they have a right to secede from the Union.
@FitzGibbonRepublican 4mos4MO
When it comes to border control that's the federal government whether the state believes it to be or not. The people that are currently making the decisions don't have to deal with the influx of migrants because there in Washington and not Texas. This is a major issue that needs to be solved. Migrants must seek asylum or citizenship or work visa the correct way. We need to send them back and have them do it through the proper channels.
On a side note. I'm heart broken for the people seek a better life, and I sympathetic towards them. I would honestly try to do the same if my… Read more
@Patriot-#1776Constitution4mos4MO
A wicked, twisted, and blatant violation of the Constitution. There's nothing left for the conservative states in this Union, the time to secede and form a Conservative Confederacy, where state sovereignty and individual freedom shall be zealously guarded, where there shall again be a gold standard and zero direct taxation, and where infanticide and the industrialised butchery of the unborn shall be criminal, has arrived. These people don't give a dang about our Constitution, it's time "We the States" asserted the sovereignty that rightly resides within us and nullify these stupid laws and secede if the gov't tries to interfere. Liberty or Death!
@9J9QF2TRepublican4mos4MO
I think it's important to keep people up to date with news.
@9J9QBQ94mos4MO
Let the state control the boarder
@D3mocratOctopusConstitution4mos4MO
Whatever. If the federal govt was doing it's effing job, Texas wouldn't have to resort to such measures. And don't try to weasel out of it by blaming the Republicans.
@FederalistLilyGreen4mos4MO
Immigrants are human too they deserve a better life just like Trump's wife she was an immigrant until she got her citizenship what bout Justin Bieber he's from Canada in order for him to stay he had to marry and get his green card is it only white people can not brown people
@GrumpyCabinetDemocrat4mos4MO
Why did we elect right wing judges just so they could just benefit the Dems? Let’s just give our country to Mexico because that’s essentially what’s happening
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