Texas responded Tuesday to the Biden administration’s appeal to the Supreme Court, saying Border Patrol should be barred from cutting through razor wire barriers that seek to block immigrants who enter the United States illegally through the southern border.

Republican state Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office argued the Supreme Court’s intervention is unnecessary at the moment because the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit has already expedited oral arguments over the dispute early next month. The state contends the federal government does not have the right to destroy Texas’s property and claims “eyewitness observers” reported Border Patrol agents “facilitat[ing] the surge of migrants” into Eagle Pass, Texas.

“As the district court documented in detail, video evidence shows federal agents ‘cutting multiple holes in the concertina wire for no apparent purpose other than to allow migrants easier entrance further inland,'” Texas Solicitor General Aaron Nielson wrote, asking the Supreme Court to reject the Biden administration’s petition for review.

Border Patrol alleges the barriers block them from carrying out arrests on immigrants who enter the country illegally and claims the wire only obstructs efforts to administer aid in emergency situations.