Texas Border Case Remand From Fifth Circuit Vexes Busy Judge

DEL RIO, Texas—A federal judge in Texas said she was confused Monday by the purpose of an appeals court’s demand that she hold a follow-up hearing in a border enforcement case involving Texas’ use of razor wire.

US District Judge Alia Moses of the Western District of Texas said evidence sought from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals stems from events that occurred in January, two months after she denied Texas’ preliminary bid in November to stop the US Department of Homeland Security from destroying wire it had constructed along the banks of the Rio Grande.

“You can’t review a ...