Jul 27, 2023 · Texas is using controversial large buoys and sharp razor wire to prevent migrants from attempting river crossings. Here's a closer look.

Jan 20, 2025 · Texas Governor Greg Abbott posted a video of border buoys being placed into the Rio Grande shortly after President Trump was sworn into office. The Biden Administration had sued Texas in an...

Aug 9, 2023 · The wrecking ball-sized buoys that make up the floating barrier that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott installed in July in the Rio Grande have circular saws between them, according to a video posted by...

Aug 8, 2023 · “Nothing but concertina, containers, ship cars, and now a buoy in the middle of the river.” In recent days, bodies of migrants were discovered near the buoy barrier. Texas officials say the men likely drowned upstream.

Sep 6, 2023 · Federal District Judge David A. Ezra ruled on Wednesday that Texas must remove a string of buoys, installed to deter migrants from crossing the Rio Grande, siding with the federal...

Dec 1, 2023 · A federal appeals court on Friday ruled that Texas must remove a series of buoys in its river border with Mexico that had generated a wave of backlash from immigration advocates and...

Jul 31, 2024 · Buoys meant to deter migrant crossings in the Rio Grande River in Eagle Pass, Texas, US, on Wednesday, October 11, 2023. The full 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals handed …

The Justice Department on Monday sued Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, asking a federal judge to force Texas to remove a roughly 1,000-foot line of bright orange, wrecking ball-sized buoys that are meant to stop migrants from entering the U.S. (July 25)

Jan 17, 2024 · A floating barrier in the Rio Grande erected by Texas to deter migrants will remain in place for now as an appeals court reconsiders earlier court rulings declaring the barrier illegal.

Sep 7, 2023 · Texas has been granted a temporary stay, a day after a federal judge ordered the state to move the barriers it placed in the Rio Grande to its side of the river.