Texas Set to Use Rio Grande Buoys in Bid to Curb Border Crossings
Texas began Thursday to roll out what will become a floating barrier on the Rio Grande in the latest escalation of Governor Greg Abbott's multibillion-dollar effort to secure the U.S. border with Mexico. But even before the huge, orange buoys were unloaded from the four semitrailers that had hauled them to the border city of Eagle Pass, there were concerns about this part of Abbott's unprecedented challenge to federal authority over immigration enforcement. Migrant advocates voiced concerns about drowning risks... Читать дальше...