Tags: Eagle Pass, Floating buoys, Greg Abbott, Iowa, Jim Pillen, Joe Biden, Kim Reynolds, Kristi Noem, Mexico, Migrant center, migrants, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Operation Lone Star, Rio Grande River, South Dakota, Texas, U.S. Department of Justice, U.S.-Mexico Border, United Nations, United States
A FEDERAL JUDGE IN TEXAS WILL CONSIDER WHETHER THE STATE HAS LEGAL GROUNDING TO KEEP IT’S BARRIER OF BUOYS AFLOAT IN THE RIO GRANDE RIVER —
MEANT TO SERVE AS A DETERRENT TO ILLEGAL CROSSINGS.
BUT THE BORDER SECURITY TACTIC HAS BEEN OF CONTROVERSY EVERY SINCE IT WAS IMPLEMENTED IN JULY.
THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION AND MEXICO HAVE BOTH PUSHED FOR TEXAS TO REMOVE THE BUOYS —
LARGELY CITING SAFETY CONCERNS.
BUT GOVERNOR ABBOTT ARGUES ITS BECAUSE OF **PERSISTING SAFETY HAZARDS THAT THE STATE FIRST DEPLOYED ITS BUOY BARRIER.
“Just last month here in the Eagle pass area, there was an infant who drowned crossing the border. That was before that we put the buoys up a little infant drowned and not a peep out of Washington, D.C.”
IN RECENT DAYS THE STATE OF TEXAS DID MOVE ITS BUOYS CLOSER TO THE SIDE OF U.S. SOIL TO APPEASE A REQUEST FROM MEXICO —
BUT ABBOTT HAS STOOD FIRM THE STATE IS WITHIN ITS LEGAL RIGHTS TO HAVE THE BUOYS DEPLOYED.
ON MONDAY — THE TEXAS GOVERNOR WAS JOINED BY OTHER REPUBLICAN GOVERNORS FROM IOWA, NEBRASKA, OKLAHOMA, AND SOUTH DAKOTA —
ALL OF WHOM HAVE SENT THEIR OWN LAW ENFORCEMENT AND NATIONAL GUARD MEMBERS TO THE BORDER TO HELP SECURE IT.
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