A federal judge on Monday ordered the Biden administration to stop cutting razor wire on fences along the southern border in Texas meant to stop illegal migrant crossings.

Judge Alia Moses, of the U.S. Western District of Texas , on Monday ordered the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to stop "disassembling, degrading, tampering" miles of razor wire running along the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass.

The temporary order is a result of a lawsuit brought by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, arguing that federal officials claimed they had authority to destroy state property "to allow [illegal] aliens to enter & be processed."

Paxton asked the court for an immediate injunction last week, noting in his request to the court that "federal agents escalated matters, trading bolt cutters for an industrial-strength telehandler forklift to dismantle Texas’s border fence."

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton claimed to the court that "federal agents used hydraulic-powered pallet forks to rip Texas’s fence…out of the ground, holding it suspended in the air in order to wave more than 300 migrants illegally into Texas."

"Federal agents used hydraulic-powered pallet forks to rip Texas’s fence—concertina wire, fencing posts, clamps, and all—out of the ground, holding it suspended in the air in order to wave more than 300 migrants illegally into Texas," the motion for a temporary injunction reads.

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