Court of Appeals Orders Texas to Remove Buoy Border Barrier along the Rio Grande River

Texas must remove floating barrier from Rio Grande, Fifth Circuit Court orders

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Appeals court tells Texas to remove Rio Grande buoy 'death traps'

A federal appellate court panel on Friday delivered a blow to Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's anti-migrant regime, ruling 2-1 that the state must remove from the Rio Grande a buoy barrier intended to block people from crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) sued Texas and Abbott over the buoys, which are part of the governor's Operation Lone Star, in July. U.S. Judge David A. Ezra of the Western District of Texas…

Appeals Court Tells Texas to Remove Anti-Migrant Razor Buoys From Rio Grande

The buoys are "only a fraction of Gov. Abbott's racist and murderous Operation Lone Star," noted immigrant advocates.

Court of Appeals Orders Texas to Remove Buoy Border Barrier along the Rio Grande River

1,000-foot-long barrier system

Arizona port of entry to close due to huge numbers of asylum seekers, say officials

Workers at the remote Lukeville crossing with Mexico will process new arrivals instead of watching over vehicle and foot trafficSo many asylum seekers are crossing from Mexico into the United States around remote Lukeville, Arizona, that US officials say they will close the port of entry there so that the operations officials who watch over vehicle and pedestrian traffic going both ways can help border patrol agents detain and process the new ar…

Texas must remove floating barrier from Rio Grande, appellate court orders

A federal appellate court panel has ordered Texas to remove the floating barrier it deployed in the Rio Grande at Eagle Pass this summer, affirming a lower court's ruling.