President-elect Donald Trump on Friday filed an amicus brief to stop the Biden administration's "fire sales" of border-wall materials to private parties, the Daily Wire reported.
The news outlet last week reported on the sale along with video showing trucks hauling away parts of the wall to GovPlanet, a government surplus auction site in Marana, Arizona.
A border patrol agent told the Daily Wire the removal was happening from three stations: Nogales, Tucson, and Three Points.
The brief, filed in the Southern District of Texas, argues that Trump has made clear his "support for building a system of border barriers at the southwestern border" and that "building the border wall is the clear and emphatic policy of the incoming Trump Administration."
Trump earlier this week called on the Biden administration to stop the sale and threatened legal action, saying he had spoken to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and other Texas officials about a potential restraining order.
"We're going to spend hundreds of millions of dollars more on building the same wall we already have," Trump said. "It’s almost a criminal act."
Congress last year required the Biden administration to dispose of the unused border wall pieces. The measure, included in the massive National Defense Authorization Act, allows for the sale or donation of the items to states on the southern border, providing they are used to refurbish existing barriers, not install new ones.
Congress also directed the Pentagon to account for storage costs for the border wall material while it has gone unused.
Information from the Associated Press was used in this report.