U.S. Supreme Court in a 5-4 vote, agreed with the Biden Administration on Monday, allowing federal agents to remove the razor that has been placed along the U.S.-Mexico border at Eagle Pass by the State of Texas.
Chief Justice John Roberts joined with Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Amy Coney Barrett, and Ketanji Brown Jackson to seal the majority decision, while Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh were in the minority.
Eagle Pass is one of the places where illegal immigrants have been flooding Texas, leading Gov. Greg Abbott to take control of the border, after U.S. national security had been abandoned by the Biden Administration.
Border agents had removed some of Abbott’s Operation Lone Star razor wire that was placed on U.S. side, and Texas sued the Biden Administration. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals supported Texas, but the Biden Administration then appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, federal agents encountered about 2.5 million illegal immigrants at the southern border in 2023. That doesn’t account for the got-aways, however. When illegal immigrants get to U.S. soil, they are typically processed and released under the Biden Administration’s lax rules.
According to House Judiciary Committee Republicans, between Jan. 20, 2021, when Biden took office, and March 31, 2023, there were over 5 million illegal alien encounters: “Of these encounters, at least 2,464,424 had no confirmed departure from the United States. During the same period, DHS released at least 2,148,738 illegal aliens into the United States.”
Only 5,993 illegal aliens encountered at the southwest border and placed in removal proceedings before an immigration judge were actually removed from the United States during this time, the committee members said.
Alaska Congressional candidate Nick Begich, a Republican running to unseat Rep. Mary Peltola, commented on the border chaos, saying, “Texas has shown us that @JoeBiden could secure the border any time he’d like. Biden CHOOSES not to. As a result, hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens cross into our nation every month. @MaryPeltola has endorsed Joe Biden for President, but we can’t afford 4 more years of No Show Joe. It’s time to secure the border, put the people of our nation FIRST, and get America back on track.”
On Tuesday, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan sent a subpoena ordering Biden’s Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra to provide records related to the handling of unaccompanied migrant children with suspected criminal gang ties.
