U.S. Appeals Court Orders Texas to Remove Buoy Barrier in Rio Grande
Gov. Greg Abbott’s office has said the floating buoys are needed to restrict migrants entering from Mexico. The federal government said they were illegal.
By Edgar Sandoval
Reporting from San Antonio
Dec. 1, 2023
A federal appeals court on Friday ordered the state of Texas to remove a barrier of floating buoys in the Rio Grande installed at the direction of Gov. Greg Abbott to block migrants trying to cross from Mexico, delivering a blow to the state’s efforts to curtail unauthorized immigration.
In a 2-1 decision, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans declined a request by the governor’s office to reverse a previous finding by a federal judge that the barriers were illegal.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/01/us/texas-border-buoys-court.html
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