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Great news. States need to be able to protect their border against intruders from other nations.
More Trump judges on the way too.
A federal appeals court has ruled in favor of Texas in its dispute with the Biden administration over the state’s putting razor wire along the border with Mexico.
The 2-1 decision by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans both lifts a federal judge’s injunction last year against Texas building any new razor-wire barriers along the Rio Grande and allows the state to sue the federal government for trespassing to cut previous wires.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott cheered the decision on social media Wednesday evening.
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In writing the decision for the panel majority, Circuit Judge Kyle Duncan said Texas was not overstepping its legal bounds by regulating the U.S. Border Patrol.
The Trump appointee said the state was protecting its own and its residents’ property.
The public interest “supports clear protections for property rights from government intrusion and control” and ensuring that federal immigration law enforcement does not “unnecessarily intrude into the rights of countless property owners,” he wrote.
The appeals court has two other cases involving Texas and the federal government fighting over immigration-related issues — one about whether the state can keep a 1,000-foot floating barrier on the Rio Grande and another about a state law allowing for the arrest and prosecution of people in the U.S. illegally.

Texas has right to build razor wire border wall, appeals court rules
A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that the Biden administration overstepped when it tried to dismantle Texas’ razor-wire border fence.
