In an enormous blow to Joe Biden, a federal appeals courtroom on Wednesday dominated in favor of Texas Governor Greg Abbott to permit razor wire to be constructed on the border wall.
The Fifth Circuit Court docket of Appeals dominated that Texas can construct razor wire alongside the border wall to cease unlawful aliens from coming into the nation.
The courtroom dominated Joe Biden was unsuitable for slicing the concertina wire.
BREAKING: the federal courtroom of appeals simply dominated that Texas has the appropriate to construct the razor wire border wall that we’ve constructed to disclaim unlawful entry into our state.and that Biden was unsuitable to chop our razor wire.
We proceed including extra razor wire border barrier. pic.twitter.com/a1jLPvceLf
— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) November 27, 2024
Earlier this yr the US Supreme Court docket sided with the Biden Regime and allowed Border Patrol brokers to take away razor wire put in on the Texas-Mexico border.
Gov. Greg Abbott (R) beforehand put in about 30 miles of razor wire on the Texas-Mexico border close to Eagle Move to cease the flood of unlawful aliens being let in by the Biden administration.
Final October Texas Lawyer Common Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit towards the Biden Regime relating to their slicing razor wire on the border.
The lawsuit made its strategy to the fifth Circuit Court docket of Appeals after a federal decide sided with Biden. The appeals courtroom beforehand dominated brokers might NOT minimize the razor wire.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Lawyer Common Ken Paxton final yr vowed to defy the Supreme Court docket’s ruling on razor wire on the southern border.
As we speak, I denied the Biden Administration’s unfounded requests & issued counter-demands. By February 15, DHS should provide the official plat maps & deeds demonstrating the exact parcels to which they declare possession, a proof of how Texas is stopping entry to these… https://t.co/cXwBfGtiG3
— Lawyer Common Ken Paxton (@KenPaxtonTX) January 27, 2024
Governor Abbott beforehand invoked Texas’ Constitutional authority to defend itself towards the lawless Biden Regime.
Full statement from Abbott:
“The Government Department of america has a constitutional obligation to implement federal legal guidelines defending States, together with immigration legal guidelines on the books proper now,” reads the assertion. “President Biden has instructed his businesses to disregard federal statutes that mandate the detention of unlawful immigrants. The failure of the Biden Administration to meet the duties imposed by Article IV, § 4 has triggered Article I, § 10, Clause 3, which reserves to this State the appropriate of self-defense. For these causes, I’ve already declared an invasion beneath Article I, § 10, Clause 3 to invoke Texas’s constitutional authority to defend and defend itself. That authority is the supreme regulation of the land and supersedes any federal statutes on the contrary.”