A federal judge on Tuesday brushed off Texas’ assertion that Gov. Greg Abbott has the right to install anti-migrant buoys in the Rio Grande because of a...
and therefore does fall under the 1899 law because it only applies if a body of water is wide and deep enough for shipping. During the hearing, though, attorneys for Texas did not say much about the river’s depth or navigability.
Also Tuesday, a U.S. State Department official said the buoys could negatively affect the U.S.-Mexico relationship.— including one last week. And President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has discussed the buoys six times during his daily press conferences, Quam said.In the past, the Mexican government has opposed construction of barriers along the border – all on U.S. territory. This time, however, an individual state has put barriers on Mexico’s side of the boundary, she testified.
Over the weekend, Texas quietly moved the buoys into U.S. territory following a survey by the International Boundary and Water Commission that found aboutOn Monday, Abbott said at a news conference in Eagle Pass that the barrier had “drifted,” though the survey also showed most of the concrete anchors also on the Mexican side.
In court Tuesday, Loren Flossman, an employee with buoy vendor Cochrane USA, which installed the $850,000 floating barrier, questioned the accuracy of the commission’s survey. Cochrane mapped out the area of the river before installing the buoys and placed them on the U.S. side, he testified.Flossman testified that it would take about three weeks to remove the buoys. The Justice Department is asking for the buoys to be removed in 10 days..
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