As the standoff continues over razor wire fencing placed on Texas’ southern border, Democrats are calling on President Joe Biden to take control of the National Guard.
Currently, as part of Gov. Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star initiative, Texas National Guard and the Department of Public Safety have placed concertina wire and other barriers along the Rio Grande in an effort to deter illegal crossings.
After the Biden administration ordered Border Patrol personnel last year to cut down the barriers to allow illegal aliens to pass through, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals placed an injunction preventing them from doing so. This week, however, the U.S. Supreme Court lifted that injunction, allowing the destruction of the barriers to resume.
Thus far, however, Texas has held the line, preventing federal agents from entering Shelby Park—a hotspot of crossings in Eagle Pass—and placing more wire in recent days.
