A spokesperson for U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) defended video footage of a U.S. Border Patrol agent cutting open a section of razor wire for an illegal immigrant family, saying that it was a necessary action to apprehend them.
On Friday, Fox News reporter Bill Melugin shared a Twitter post showing the unidentified Border Patrol agent taking wire cutters to a spiraling line of razor wire and then pulling the wire aside to allow at least a dozen illegal immigrants to walk through.
In his Twitter post caption, Melugin reported that the razor wire fence was laid out on private property by the Texas Department of Public Safety (Texas DPS) with the permission of the property owner. Texas DPS officials and National Guard troops from a variety of states have been spreading razor wire and manning sections of the Texas border in an effort to physically block illegal border crossings as part of an effort known as Operation Lone Star….