Ken Paxton sued the Biden administration on Tuesday after reports and videos surfaced last month showing U.S. Border Patrol agents have cut pieces of concertina wiring placed along the state’s border with Mexico.
A young girl is lifted over concertina wire as she and other migrants cross the Rio Grande and enter the U.S. in September.
“Defendants’ repeated destruction of Texas’s concertina wire irreparably harms Texas because it facilitates increased illegal entry into the State,” the filing adds. Texas DPS director Steve McCraw has said the border barriers are an effort to, in part, deter migrants from crossing the Rio Grande and instead present themselves at a port of entry. But immigration attorneys and other advocates say that migrants are legally allowed to seek asylum once they reach U.S. soil, even if they cross at places other than a port of entry.
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