The government of Texas and the Biden administration are in a legal standoff
over a public park along the U.S.-Mexico border, where Texas National Guard soldiers have blocked access to Border Patrol officials.
Texas Attorney General
Ken Paxton on Wednesday repudiated a demand from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to provide Border Patrol officials access to Shelby Park in Eagle Pass.
"Because the facts and law side with Texas, the State will continue utilizing its constitutional authority to defend her territory, and I will continue defending those lawful efforts in court,"
Paxton wrote in a letter to DHS general counsel Jonathan Meyer.
"The U.S. Department of Homeland Security should stop wasting scarce time and resources suing Texas, and start enforcing the immigration laws Congress already has on the books."
Paxton's response
followed a cease-and-desist letter dated Sunday, in which Meyer demanded that Texas officials stop blocking Border Patrol access and that they remove the barriers in the park.
"The recent actions by the State of Texas have impeded operations of the Border Patrol. Those actions conflict with the authority and duties of Border Patrol under federal law and are preempted under the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution. Texas's actions also improperly seek to regulate the federal government," wrote Meyer.
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