“”In briefings filed with the Supreme Court on January 2, the Biden administration claimed there is “no indication that the wire had deterred migrants from crossing into the United States,” the article states.””
The wire was there to protect private property and to keep someone from trespassing. The state of Texas and the landowners on the border own that border. Unlike NM, AZ and CA we own that border to the middle of the river. NM, AZ and CA gave up a 60ft strip of land the entire length of their southern border to the Federal government. This was done in 1907 via the Roosevelt Reservation. One of the reasons the container wall in AZ had to come down, they installed it on Federal property. Over 60ft from the border and they’d have been good. The buoys in the river in Texas still remain.
What this ruling tells me is the Federal Government now has the power to not only enter private property but also remove any barriers. Private property rights just took a big hit.
Reframe the argument towards SCOTUS: the militia is the only constitutionally empowered organization to stop invasion and the enforce the laws of the United States.
Checkmate.
Intrastate or the transfer and possession of stolen/illegal goods across State boarders is illegal.
The State of Texas should look at the laws on stolen property transferred across state lines; the legal language and history of prosecution in the USA.
For example if you are a music store in Greenville, Ohio and you buy some typical marching band instruments, and later they are found to have been stolen from a school in Indiana, you can be sued by the authoritities and your business closed down.
The receipt of illegal aliens is transfer between international states. Once in Texas, they might have to remain in Texas.
This is a slipperly slope to go down, but blocking them at the boarder because it is breaking state and federal laws (which are not enforced which is illegal), Texas could agure this in InterState/IntraState Transportation of Stolen Goods.
The USA is stealing people from the rest of the world, and in extension is stealing from the USA Taxpayers to support this law breaking enterprise.
Didn’t we go through this once with South Carolina over immigrant slaves?
Amy was overrated.
I saw mentioned somewhere that Texas is installing more razor fencing today.
Cutting the Razor Wire after wading the Rio Grande