EAGLE PASS, Texas (AP) — Wrecking ball-sized buoys on the Rio Grande. Razor wire strung across private property without permission. Bulldozers changing the very terrain of America's southern border.

On Jan. 22, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling allowing U.S. Border Patrol agents to cut and move concertina wire, commonly called razor wire, set up by the state of Texas along the Mexican ...