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A federal judge ruled that Texas had no standing to install the border barriers. Texas was granted a stay. The Justice Department is likely to succeed on its claim that floating barriers Texas deployed in the Rio Grande to prevent migrants from crossing were illegally installed, a federal judge in Austin ruled -- adding the arguments used to justify the buoys are “unconvincing” and, in at least one instance, unconstitutional. Judge David Alan Ezra ordered the Lonestar state to move its buoys on Wednesday and said the Justice Department is likely to prevail on its claim that Texas lacked proper authority to install them in the first place and that the state had employed "unconvincing" and conflicting rationale in doing so. The ruling grants a preliminary injunction to the Department of Justice, which sued Texas for placing the buoys in the Rio Grande in July. "Governor Abbott announced that he was not 'asking for permission' for Operation Lone Star, the anti-immi...

A box of giraffe feces was seized and destroyed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection after a woman brought it back from a trip to Kenya and planned to make necklaces. A box of giraffe feces was confiscated and destroyed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection after a woman brought it back from a trip to Kenya and planned to make necklaces out of the excrement. The woman obtained the fecal matter when she was on a trip to Kenya and was returning back to the United States on Sept. 29 when she was selected by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agriculture specialists for inspection at Minneapolis – Saint Paul International Airport in Minnesota. MORE: Woman caught smuggling almost half a million dollars of cocaine in wheelchair that didn't work “The passenger declared giraffe feces and stated she had obtained the droppings in Kenya and planned to make a necklace ,” CBP said in their statement detailing the incident. “The passenger also stated in the past she had used moose fece...

A federal judge temporarily barred the federal government from removing or cutting razor wire Texas authorities have placed in areas near the U.S. - Mexico border. A federal judge has temporarily barred the federal government from removing or cutting concertina wire Texas authorities have placed in areas near the U.S. - Mexico border. Judge Alia Moses granted the state’s request for a temporary restraining order as part of a lawsuit Texas filed last week, but left an exception if cutting the wire would prevent "serious bodily injury or death." "The Court shall grant the temporary relief requested, with one important exception for any medical emergency that most likely results in serious bodily injury or death to a person, absent any boats or other life-saving apparatus available to avoid such medical emergencies prior to reaching the concertina wire barrier," Judge Moses wrote in the filing on Monday. The temporary restraining order is part of a lawsuit that Texas...

Army private Travis King, who crossed the border into North Korea before being returned to the U.S. in September, has been charged with desertion, according to a source. Army private Travis King, who crossed the border into North Korea before being returned to the U.S. in September, has been charged with desertion , according to Military charging documents a source close to the case shared with ABC News Thursday night. In addition to desertion for crossing over into North Korea, where he was detained for two months, King faces seven additional charges, including possessing child pornography and multiple assaults, according to the documents. A defense official confirmed the desertion and assault charges to ABC News, while another said reports on the charges were correct. Reuters was first to break the news of the desertion, child pornography and assault charges. A spokesperson for the First Armored Division, King’s unit, was not available for comment late Thursday night, but the doc...

A 23-year-old Venezuela man is preparing to say goodbye to a pet squirrel he says he brought from his home country on a journey to Mexico MATAMOROS, Mexico -- During the weeks it took Yeison and Niko to migrate from Venezuela toward the U.S., they navigated dangerous jungles and over a dead body. The two are so inseparable that Yeison sold his phone so both had enough bus money to continue their journey. Now as Yeison prepares to finally enter the U.S., it's likely he will have to leave Niko behind. That's because Niko is a squirrel. The 23-year-old man and his pet squirrel are an unusual but blunt reflection of the emotional choices migrants make over what to take — and what to leave behind — as they embark on the dangerous trip north. Yeison, who declined to give his last name because he fears for his family’s safety in Venezuela, said going without Niko was out of the question. But Mexico is where they might be forced to part ways. Yeison, who is among millions of Venezuela...

2022 saw the most Customs and Border Protection agents die by suicide since 2009 -- a total of 14 Sal, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection employee, was going through a difficult time in his life when he first started at the agency . His mother was being physically abused by her partner, he said -- and that was the tipping point. "So one day at work ... I'm just pacing back and forth and I have a miserable look on my face," Sal, who was not identified by his last name, said during a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) podcast in September 2021. "And someone overheard me say, 'I want to eat my own gun.'" His life was saved, he recalled, after a coworker noticed that he wasn't doing well and called to check in on him. His supervisors came to his apartment and made the decision to take his firearm away, helping him get the help he needed. He was put on light duty and was able to attend counseling sessions, with people who checked in on him regularly...