US supreme court allows border patrol to cut razor wire installed by Texas

Justices grant emergency appeal from Biden administration in 5-4 vote while lawsuit over wire on US-Mexico border continues

The Biden administration is allowed to cut the razor wire deployed by Texas at the border with Mexico, the US supreme court ruled on Monday.

The concertina wire, deployed at the direction of the Republican Texas governor, Greg Abbott, runs roughly 30 miles (48km) along the Rio Grande river, near the border city of Eagle Pass. It is part of Abbott's broader fight with the Biden administration over immigration enforcement and what he calls Biden's reckless open-border policies".

The Associated Press contributed to this report