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Texas gets major win in battle to secure border despite

Biden admin's attempts to stop it
A lawsuit brought by Texas said federal officials cut the razor wire to let 300 migrants cross illegally
By Brianna Herlihy Fox News

Published October 30, 2023 2:00pm EDT

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A federal judge on Monday ordered the Biden administration to stop cutting razor wire on
fences along the southern border in Texas meant to stop illegal migrant crossings.

Judge Alia Moses, of the U.S. Western District of Texas on Monday ordered the ,

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to stop "disassembling, degrading, tampering"

miles of razor wire running along the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass.

The temporary order is a result of a lawsuit brought by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton,
arguing that federal officials claimed they had authority to destroy state property "to allow
[illegal] aliens to enter & be processed."

Paxton asked the court for an immediate injunction last week, noting in his request to the
court that "federal agents escalated matters, trading bolt cutters for an industrial-strength
telehandler forklift to dismantle Texas’s border fence."

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton claimed to the court that "federal agents used hydraulic-powered pallet forks to rip
Texas’s fence…out of the ground, holding it suspended in the air in order to wave more than 300 migrants illegally into
Texas." (Benjamin Lowy for Fox News Digital )

"Federal agents used hydraulic-powered pallet forks to rip Texas’s fence—concertina wire,
fencing posts, clamps, and all—out of the ground, holding it suspended in the air in order
to wave more than 300 migrants illegally into Texas," the motion for a temporary injunction
reads.

Last week, DHS released a statement saying that border agents "have a responsibility
under federal law" to protect migrants from being injured regardless of their legal status.

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Large masses of migrants cross the surging Rio Grande River and await entry along the razor wired American border in
Eagle Pass, TX on September 27, 2023. (Benjamin Lowy for Fox News Digital )

In an 11-page document filed in the with the federal court in Del Rio, Judge Moses found
that the state of Texas had met the required four-part test needed to be granted a
temporary halt to the federal government's action, made one exception.

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