Texas told the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday afternoon that federal Border Patrol agents have no right to cut razor wire that the state placed along the bank of the Rio Grande River to deter undocumented migrants, a barrier the Biden administration considers a “risk to human life.”

“The Supremacy Clause does not insulate Defendants’ destruction of property, especially given the district court’s finding that Defendants ‘cannot claim [that] the statutory duties they are so obviously derelict in enforcing … require the destruction of the Plaintiff’s property,’” lawyers from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office wrote in a response brief.