Mark Morgan was the acting commissioner of Customs and Border Protection in 2020 when he says he approved the same barrier being put on the Rio Grande. Morgan says he called it the “water wall.'
In the final months of the Trump administration, a new plan to seal off the United States' southern border started gaining steam: a floating water barrier to discourage migrants from trying to cross from Mexico.
It was never installed after President Joe Biden took office the following year. Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott put the idea into action this month That legal battle comes as President Joe Biden's administration defends a new asylum rule in court. A federal judge Tuesday That August, the Army Corps of Engineers posted a solicitation for a “buoy barrier system” that would “mitigate the ability of swimmers to climb” over or under it.“It was really designed to be a stopgap to utilize in high-flow areas where we didn’t have a physical structure in place,” Morgan said.
“Just like the physical wall itself, right, there are a variety of things you can do to accommodate that,” he said.It is unclear how quickly a federal judge in Texas will rule on the Biden administration's lawsuit.
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