The Biden administration is suing the state of Texas over its increasingly aggressive approach to policing the country’s southern border, upping the ante in a fraught political stand-off over migration.
In a complaint filed on Monday, the US Department of Justice said that the installation of a floating barricade set to stretch at least 1,000 feet across the Rio Grande river had failed to secure the requisite federal permissions.
“We allege that Texas has flouted federal law by installing a barrier in the Rio Grande without obtaining the required federal authorisation,” said Vanita Gupta, associate US attorney-general.
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