The US asks the Supreme Court to cut the barbed wire installed by Texas on the border

The U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday asked the Supreme Court to allow Border Patrol agents to cut barbed wire installed by Texas on the southern border to try to reduce the immigration illegal.

In a request published by the North American media, the attorney general of U.S, Elizabeth Prelogarasked the country’s highest judicial body to annul the order of an appeals court, which last month ruled in favor of the authorities. Texas and prohibited federal agents from handling the wire except in cases of medical emergencies.

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“The order prohibits agents from moving or passing through physical obstacles implemented by the State that prevent access to the very border they are obliged to patrol.,” he explained in his Prelogar application.

The barbed wire installed by Texas at the border is part of a series of measures against illegal immigration by the governor of Texas, Greg Abbottknown as “Operation Lone Star”, and which also include the installation of a floating barrier of buoys in the big River or the massive sending of migrants on buses to cities governed by Democrats.

Last Thursday, the US Government threatened to sue Texas if it applies a new immigration law that makes the illegal entry of people from Mexicoand which is considered by experts to be one of the strictest anti-immigration laws in the country’s history.

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So far this year, US authorities have recorded more than 2 million “encounters” with migrants on the southern border, most of them were arrests of people who tried to cross illegally.

The continent is experiencing a historic increase in the movement of people, driven by the search for better economic opportunities and the different social and political crises in the region’s countries.

Source: Elcomercio

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