The floating buoy barrier ladened with chainsaw blades was deployed into the Rio Grande as part of Gov. Greg Abbott's multibillion dollar Operation Lone Star border crackdown in early July.
Texas' sawblade-laden buoys will remain in the Rio Grande, for now, after a federal appeals court granted the state's request to pitch out another judge's order that the barrier must be removed by Sept. 15,In a Wednesday ruling, Federal District Judge David A. Ezra sided with the U.S. Justice Department, who argued the Rio Grande buoys — deployed in July as part of Abbott's Operation Lone Star — were installed without authorization from the U.S.
On Thursday, a New Orleans-based federal appeals court — usually considered the most conservative in the nation — granted the state's request to halt the temporary injunction. While the buoys will remain, it's unclear for how long. The appeals court has not yet set a hearing date .
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