Texas has said it will continue to install razor wire at the US - Mexico border despite a Supreme Court ruling which allows the Biden administration to take it down.
The state has been putting increasing pressure on the federal government for assistance in tackling the surge in migrants arriving from across the border.
A section of the border near Eagle Pass in Texas has been the centre of a standoff between the state and the Biden administration amid uproar over border authority and security.
Authorities claim the Texas National Guard blocked federal Border Patrol access to Shelby Park - previously used by the Border Patrol to process migrants and for its Rio Grande boat ramp.
Texas has said it will continue to install razor wire at the US - Mexico border despite a Supreme Court ruling which allows the Biden administration to take it down
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A Supreme Court ruling stated that federal government can remove Texas’s barriers in the area.
However, Texas Lt Gov Dan Patrick has vowed to continue putting up more razor wires.
"We are putting up wire ... everywhere we can. We will continue. We will not stop," he told Fox News.
"If they cut it, we will replace it."
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Patrick also warned of "confrontation" with state authorities if the barriers were removed.
He added: "I was down there Friday with our troops to thank them, support them, and also to stand with them in the event the Biden administration did send Border Patrol there.
"Wisely, they did not. We’re thankful they did not. We don’t want a confrontation, but we want this border secure."
Last week, Gov. Greg Abbott said Texas has the right to fight off an "invasion" and that state authority "supersedes" federal law.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has frequently clash with Biden over the migrant crisisReutersBiden is now facing pressure from other Democrats to nationalise the Texas National Guard and force it to tear down state barriers.
More than half of American Governors have sided with Abbott in his furious spat with Biden.
The group, which includes every single Grand Old Party Governor excluding Vermont’s anti-Donald Trump Governor Phil Scott, expressed support for “Texas' constitutional right to self-defence”.