Texas sues to stop federal border agents from cutting wire barriers placed along Rio Grande by National Guard

Texas’ attorney general filed a federal lawsuit this week to stop federal border agents from cutting coiled barbed wire placed by Texas National Guard soldiers along the state’s border with Mexico, according to court documents.

Troops working on a state-sponsored mission at the border installed miles of the wire to curb the flow of migrants crossing between legal ports of entry, and federal agents are destroying state property as they cut it to let people through, Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton wrote in the lawsuit filed Tuesday in the Del Rio Division of the Western District of Texas.

The wire is typically placed within the boundary of the United States and on land owned by the state, local governments or private citizens who have granted permission for the Guard to access it. The Texas Military Department has spent roughly $11 million on more than 70,000 rolls of wire fencing, according to the lawsuit.

The lawsuit contends federal agents began cutting wire barriers more routinely last month than they had in the previous two years of the state’s border mission.

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