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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Adam Gabbatt

White House asks supreme court to allow cutting of Texas’s border fencing

A group of people walk along a shallow river with razor wire heaped on its banks.
The federal government argued that agents need to cut through or move the fencing to enforce existing border laws. Photograph: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images

The Biden administration has asked the US supreme court to allow border patrol agents to cut through razor-wire fencing that Texas placed along the US-Mexico border.

In an emergency appeal by the justice department, the solicitor general said that fencing installed by Texas’s Republican governor had actually prevented border agents from detaining migrants at the border, and said federal law allows the government to remove it.

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