Texas officials, federal government at odds over razor wire at US-Mexico border

The World

Earlier this week, the US Supreme Court allowed border agents to remove razor wire along the US-Mexico border. Local authorities had installed the fencing to stem the flow of migration through the border. The World’s Carolyn Beeler spoke with Kathleen Bush-Joseph, a policy analyst with the Migration Policy Institute, about Texas’ legal argument for the razor wire as well as the dangers it poses to migrants. 

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