Texas GovAbbott has approved a plan to disrupt Rio Grande crossings from Mexico to his state by illegal immigrants using a system navy’s deploy to protect warships. The plan uses a 1,000-foot 'marine floating barrier' to block key sections of the river.
His plan is to use a 1,000-foot "marine floating barrier" to visibly block key sections of the river most immigrants have to cross to enter the United States illegally.The Center for Immigration Studies said the system is made up of large floating balls that spin to keep people from getting on. And while good swimmers can dive under them, “the whole design is to block the thousands, not the one” who can swim under, a state official told CIS.
What’s more, the state is also considering hanging “webbing” under the water barrier to make it hard to dive past.In his report, Todd Bensman, a Texas-based CIS fellow who has often embedded with U.S. and Mexican immigration forces, said Abbott wants to deploy the system as early as this month. The system is made by Cochrane. On its website, Cochrane shows similar systems that are armed with barbs. Bensman said the one eyed by Abbott will not be barbed.
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