AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is asking the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to speed up a case over razor wire installed along the border.
In the fall of last year, the State of Texas sued the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for cutting concertina wire that the state installed near the Rio Grande.
In January of this year, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed U.S. Border Patrol agents to continue cutting the wire. But the fight continues between the state and the federal government.
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On Friday, Paxton filed a letter with the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, asking it to expedite the case's resolution.
The federal government has argued that the wire has prevented Border Patrol agents from being able to access the border and do their jobs – including being able to access the river when people were drowning in it.
But the AG's letter to the court states that in the past few months, federal authorities haven't cut any more wire barriers, showing that agents can operate "without destroying Texas's property."
KVUE has reached out the Department of Homeland Security about the state's latest filing. This article will be updated if we receive a response.