Judge denies Texas request to bar Customs and Border Protection from cutting razor wire at border

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : Placed along the U.S. side of the Rio Grande, U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents have at times cut through, lifted or removed portions of the fencing to allow migrants to be apprehended, processed and sometimes disentangled from the razor-wire.
50% : In Wednesday's ruling, Judge Moses left the door open for Texas to prove its case in the future and criticized how U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the federal government have executed immigration policies.
49% : A federal judge has denied Texas' request to bar U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents from cutting or removing razor-wire the state placed along the U.S.-Mexico border.
41% : "Although the judge conceded that border patrol agents need to cut the fencing to prevent emergencies like "drowning or heat exhaustion," something Moses carved a caveat out for in the initial temporary restraining order, she also slammed the agency for cutting the wire in other instances without notifying Texas authorities.
35% : Despite previously granting the state's request for a temporary restraining order, Judge Alia Moses said in her ruling Wednesday that Texas had not provided sufficient evidence to prove the federal government broke the law in removing razor-wire.

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