Tensions have surged between Texan and federal authorities over how to respond to a surge in irregular migration across the southern border in recent months.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has vowed to leave controversial buoys in the Rio Grande after the Supreme Court blocked a new state law targeting suspected illegal migrants from taking effect on Monday.In a post on X, formerly Twitter, Abbott said the buoys would stay in the river, the building of a wall would continue and the Texas National Guard would erect razor wire barriers along the Texas-Mexico border.
They were condemned by human rights campaigners and some Democrats, particularly after a body was found stuck in a line of the buoys according to a statement released by the Mexican Foreign Relations Department on August 2, 2023, with a second body reportedly recovered three miles upriver.An Abbott spokesperson at the time told Newsweek that 'false information that Texas' marine barriers caused any death are flat-out wrong.
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