AG secures temporary court stay halting Biden/Mayorkas destruction of Texas border

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton secured a late Monday administrative court stay that will prevent the federal government from destroying Texas’s concertina wire fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border while the case continues to work through the courts.

The Fifth Circuit has barred federal immigration officials from causing any further damage to Texas’s floating wire fences while the Justice Department prepares a response to Texas’s motion for an injunction, pending appeal of the district court’s order.

The stay was granted in Texas’ landmark lawsuit against the Biden Administration just days after a federal district court judge denied the state’s effort to keep the federal government from cutting, destroying, damaging, or otherwise interfering with Texas’s concertina wire border fence.

Paxton immediately appealed that court’s ruling.

In October, the attorney general filed a lawsuit and a motion for preliminary injunction against the Biden Administration’s Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and other agencies and officials after federal agents destroyed Texas’s concertina wire and allowed illegals into Texas on an almost daily basis for weeks.

Paxton then secured a temporary restraining order on an emergency basis after federal agents escalated their destruction of Texas’s concertina wire border fence, all just days after Texas filed the lawsuit. 

“I am pleased the court recognized the extent of the federal government’s blatant and disturbing efforts to subvert law and order at our State’s border with Mexico,” Paxton said. “This is an important step supporting Texas’s right to protect our citizens from Biden’s doctrine of open borders at any cost.” 

Texas filed the case with co-counsel the Texas Public Policy Foundation. Together, they look to stop the Biden Administration’s destruction of Texas’s wire fencing.