Nearly a month after the U.S. Supreme Court moved to allow federal agents to tear down Texas’ barriers along the southern border, the state’s forces are continuing to hold their ground.
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 U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals placed an injunction preventing them from doing so. Last month, however, the U.S. Supreme Court lifted that injunction, allowing the destruction of the barriers to resume.
But while immediately after the decision many observers expected federal agents to resume destruction of the barriers, weeks later that hasn’t happened.
