AUSTIN, Texas — A federal lawsuit that two Republican-run states had unsuccessfully filed against the Biden administration to restart border wall construction has been revived by an appeals court and made a top order of business.
The New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on June 16 that a lawsuit Missouri and Texas brought in 2021 had standing to proceed after it was originally denied by a lower court.“Texas alleges border barriers reduce illegal entries in areas where constructed, and increase the rate at which illegal aliens are detected and apprehended,” U.S. Circuit Judge Edith Jones wrote in the panel's decision.
The two states followed in October 2021 and sued on the basis that the Biden administration's canceling $2.75 billion in congressionally appropriated funding in fiscal 2020 and 2021 for border wall had cost them in healthcare, education, and driver's licenses for illegal immigrants who were released into the United States after crossing the border illegally.
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