U.S. Border Patrol agents remain unable to access the border in Eagle Pass, Texas.
in south-central Texas since Jan. 10, when Abbott ordered National Guard soldiers to install 6-foot fences around Shelby Park, city land situated next to the Rio Grande.
Border Patrol agents were locked out of the park in January when the state made the unprecedented move of erecting a fence around the municipal park and forced out all federal police from inside the zone. In doing so, Texas took on the responsibility of maintaining the national border, claiming that the federal government was not adequately enforcing border laws.Texas GOP Attorney General Ken Paxton a letter on Jan. 14 that ordered the state to allow Border Patrol access to the border.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, an immigration attorney and policy director of the American Immigration Council in Washington, said the Biden administration was carefully prodding through the situation, but the lack of legal response since its initial threat against Texas in January was noteworthy. The state first sued the Biden administration in October 2023 because Border Patrol agents were cutting through concertina wire that the Texas National Guard had installed along the Rio Grande in Eagle Pass to deter and prevent illegal immigrants from entering the United States.
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