Paxton claimed agents had seized or cut wire since Sept. 20. Paxton argues agents have no authority to damage or seize state property that is not on federal land. “By cutting Texas’s concertina wire, ...

The governor said the costs “fell squarely on the shoulders of Texas taxpayers but should have been the federal government’s responsibility.” ...

El Paso is the U.S.-Mexico border in miniature: Once a permeable landscape, the Texas city is now separated from its sister to the south—Ciudad Juárez—by a harsh apparatus of walls and wire.