Texas using disaster declarations to install buoys and razor wire on the US-Mexico border
VALERIE GONZALEZ and ACACIA CORONADO
Associated Press
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has escalated measures to keep migrants from entering the U.S. The Republican is pushing legal boundaries along the border with Mexico to install razor wire, deploy massive buoys on the Rio Grande and bulldoze border islands in the river. Abbott has used disaster decla…
EAGLE PASS, Texas — Wrecking ball-sized buoys on the Rio Grande. Razor wire strung across private property without permission. Bulldozers changing the very terrain of America's southern border.
Kayak outfitter Jessie Fuentes stands above the Rio Grande on July 6 in Eagle Pass, Texas, where concertina wire lines the banks of the river. Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has escalated measures to keep migrants from entering the U.S., including installing razor wire and massive buoys on the Rio Grande and bulldozing border islands in the river.
Migrants trying to enter the U.S. from Mexico on July 11 approach the site where workers are assembling large buoys to be used as a border barrier along the banks of the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass, Texas.
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Kayak outfitter Jessie Fuentes stands above the Rio Grande on July 6 in Eagle Pass, Texas, where concertina wire lines the banks of the river. Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has escalated measures to keep migrants from entering the U.S., including installing razor wire and massive buoys on the Rio Grande and bulldozing border islands in the river.
Migrants trying to enter the U.S. from Mexico on July 11 approach the site where workers are assembling large buoys to be used as a border barrier along the banks of the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass, Texas.
