Texas Attorney General Sues Biden Administration for Cutting Border Razor Wire

Texas attorney general Ken Paxton filed suit on Tuesday against the Biden administration after Department of Homeland Security and Customs and Border Protection officials ordered agents to tear down sections of the southern border fence with Mexico.

“By cutting Texas’s concertina wire, the federal government has not only illegally destroyed property owned by the State of Texas; it has also disrupted the State’s border deterrence efforts, leaving gaps in Texas’s border barriers and damaging Texas’s ability to effectively deter illegal entry into Texas,” the lawsuit, filed in the Western District of Texas,...