Trump v. Barbara · ¶529

For its part, the Federal Government sued to stop Texas from implementing its own solutions to illegal immigration. When illegal entrants overran Texas border towns, the State erected barbed wire fencing, but Border Patrol officers cut or displaced the fencing. As the lower courts found and a video confirms, the federal officers installed a climbing rope on the Texas side of the river and made no effort to turn back a stream of migrants who were wading across the Rio Grande. Instead of processing the entrants, border officers simply told them to walk a mile or more without supervision to the nearest immigration processing center. Then, from the comfort of chambers more than 1,000 miles from the southern border, this Court sided with the Federal Government, allowing immigrants to pour into the State. See Department of Homeland Security v. Texas, 601 U. S. ＿＿＿ (2024). Likewise, the…

slip opinion, revised 7/01/26
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