Supreme Court rules feds can cut through wire Texas deployed along border

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Monday that U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents can cut through concertina wire deployed along the banks of the Rio Grande as part of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star immigration crackdown. The decision fell along ideological lines with the court’s most conservative justices — Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh — all siding with Texas. Although the court didn’t give a reason for its ruling, it appears to uphold earlier precedent giving the U.S. government, not states, immigration-enforcement authority.