The U.S. Department of Justice is suing a mysterious group that built a barbed-wire fence around 1,400 acres of public land and tried to claim ownership of it. Screengrab from the Cortez Journal ...

In the past couple of years the Texas National Guard and state authorities have placed over 100 miles of razor wire at some of the most critical migrant crossing points along the southern border.

claiming that U.S. Border Patrol agents were illegally destroying the state’s concertina wire fencing. The state, Mr. Paxton said, had the right to curb what he called an “alien surge.” ...