Court backs Texas over razor wire installed on U.S.-Mexico border

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: NPR/AP

November 27, 2024 11:37 PM ET


NEW ORLEANS — A federal appeals court Wednesday ruled that Border Patrol agents cannot cut razor wire that Texas installed on the U.S.-Mexico border in the town of Eagle Pass, which has become the center of the state's aggressive measures to curb migrant crossings.

The decision by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is a victory for Texas in a long-running rift over immigration policy with the Biden administration, which has also sought to remove floating barriers installed on the Rio Grande. Texas has continued to install razor wire along its roughly 1,200-mile (1,900 kilometers) border with Mexico over the past year. In a 2-1 ruling, the court issued an injunction blocking Border Patrol agents from damaging the wire in Eagle Pass.

"We continue adding more razor wire border barrier," Republican Gov. Greg Abbott posted on the social platform X in response to the ruling. A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment Wednesday.

Some migrants have been injured by the sharp wire, and the Justice Department has argued the barrier impedes the U.S. government's ability to patrol the border, including coming to the aid of migrants in need of help. Texas contended in the lawsuit originally filed last year that federal government was "undermining" the state's border security efforts by cutting the razor wire.

Read more: https://www.npr.org/2024/11/27/g-s1-36115/texas-razor-wire-mexico-border

[Picaro]

1. 5th circuit strikes again

[Midnight Writer]

3. Knew it was the 5th as soon as I read the headline.

Conservatives have their own Federal Circuit Court where all their crank theories and harassing legal actions are treated as if they are valid.

[4catsmom]

2. the cutting will be from Americans

trying to get into Mexico

[Igel]

4. Okay, now the real question: Why was that the decision?

Otherwise it comes across as what too many Americans think is what judges do: Just look at something and make up the law as they see fit based on pretty much nothing but politics and personal opinion.

The last two play a role, but that "rule by law" bit isn't so much widely believed in actual fact but cited as a kind of appeal to authority by somebody who likes a unpopular decision. I mean, even places like NPR act like "rule by man" is what's really happening by giving no "role to law" in their discussion or most of their analysis--and for the majority of folk who are headline skimmers, it's not "just the facts, ma'am," but "give me the outrage-inducing conclusion".

[BumRushDaShow]

5. NPR used AP's wire service for the article

so that is the typical AP narrative.

[The Mouth]

6. I'm surprised they didn't just go straight to land mines

They probably have plans to rent out sniping platforms and issue tags. They don't see non-citizens as even human (unless they are very rich, of course).