Gov. Abbott signed 'critical border security legislation' that was passed during the recent legislative session.
Gov. Greg Abbott signed a number of "critical" border security bills at the Capitol on Thursday afternoon.held a bill signing ceremony for a series of border security bills passed during the recent Legislative Session at the Texas Capitol Thursday afternoon.
A long line of marine buoys are going to be put into the Rio Grande. Images of this floating border wall were presented at the bill signing ceremony.The link of buoys will not run the length of the border between Texas and Mexico. The first section will be a thousand feet long, that’s about 3 DKR football fields put together, end zone to end zone.
"These are about four feet. That can be six feet depending on the water. It can be a different height. They're actually been used overseas and for marine barriers to be in a bay to protect it along those lines. So it's not like it's something that that hasn't been deployed before. It's buoyant, which is important if you're talking about the floodplain. It doesn't create, you know, an offset in the water," said DPS Director Steve McCraw.
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