June 06, 2024 | Press Release
Statement from Attorney General Ken Paxton on Border Litigation Against Biden Administration
Attorney General Ken Paxton released the following statement after today’s argument before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in Texas’s concertina wire lawsuit against the federal government.
“Today, Texas made an outstanding case for our right to defend our State and protect our property from destruction by the federal government. We emphasized that a judge found that federal border officials destroyed our State’s property not to enforce federal law but rather to facilitate illegal border crossing.
We also demonstrated that the Biden Administration was not forthright to the Supreme Court of the United States about Texas’s border security actions. Earlier this year, many news outlets amplified a false narrative by blaming Texas for deaths that occurred at an illegal border crossing in the Rio Grande. That narrative has been completely disproven, revealing that these tragic deaths were weaponized to score political points. Not only has Texas shown that the federal government knew at the time that Texas was not responsible for the tragedy but even the federal government now agrees this issue is irrelevant to any of the questions properly before the court.
We also urged the court to review the video footage from September 20, 2023 that shows the Biden Administration blatantly cutting Texas’s concertina wire to allow illegal crossings at the border.
https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/statement-attorney-general-ken-paxton-border-litigation-against-biden-administration
