AUSTIN, Texas — Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) is moving forward with the installation of a $1 million wall of floating buoys on the U.S.-Mexico border despite newly filed legal action that targeted the operation.
Video shared by a Texas Department of Public Safety official this week revealed that construction workers in Eagle Pass, Texas, are in the process of connecting a series of large floating red buoys that look like oversized balls. The state has referred to this new deterrence system as a"marine barrier.""The State of #Texas is taking historic action under Gov. [Abbott's] Operation Lone Star to secure the border. Installation of the marine barrier began today in #EaglePass.
The state appears to be undeterred in its work to make the border river tougher for immigrants to get across despite an Eagle Pass-based business suing Abbott last Friday. "When we're dealing with 100 or 1,000 people, one of the goals is to slow down and deter as many of them as possible," Abbott said on June 8."Some may eventually get to the border where they are going to face that multilayered razor wire and a full force of National Guard and DPS officers."
Col. Steve McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, told reporters during a press conference on June 8 that the buoys are being placed in an area of the river where currents are most dangerous.
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