Texas vows to install MORE razor wire as Biden found to have intentionally undermined border security

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Texas has said it will continue to install razor wire at the US - Mexico
border despite a Supreme Court ruling which allows the Biden
administration to take it down.

The state has been putting increasing pressure on the federal government
for assistance in tackling the surge in migrants arriving from across the
border.

A section of the border near Eagle Pass in Texas has been the centre of a
standoff between the state and the Biden administration amid uproar over
border authority and security.

Authorities claim the Texas National Guard blocked federal Border Patrol
access to Shelby Park - previously used by the Border Patrol to process
migrants and for its Rio Grande boat ramp.

A Supreme Court ruling stated that federal government can remove Texas’s
barriers in the area.
However, Texas Lt Gov Dan Patrick has vowed to continue putting up more
razor wires.

"We are putting up wire ... everywhere we can. We will continue. We will
not stop," he told Fox News.

"If they cut it, we will replace it."

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Patrick also warned of "confrontation" with state authorities if the
barriers were removed.

He added: "I was down there Friday with our troops to thank them, support
them, and also to stand with them in the event the Biden administration
did send Border Patrol there.

"Wisely, they did not. We’re thankful they did not. We don’t want a
confrontation, but we want this border secure."

Last week, Gov. Greg Abbott said Texas has the right to fight off an
"invasion" and that state authority "supersedes" federal law.

Biden is now facing pressure from other Democrats to nationalise the Texas
National Guard and force it to tear down state barriers.

More than half of American Governors have sided with Abbott in his furious
spat with Biden.

The group, which includes every single Grand Old Party Governor excluding
Vermont’s anti-Donald Trump Governor Phil Scott, expressed support for
“Texas' constitutional right to self-defence”.

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