Texas asks appeal judges to let it keep floating barrier in place on the Rio Grande

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Attorneys for Texas are asking federal appeals court judges to let the state keep in place a floating barrier to block migrants from crossing the Rio Grande. Three judges with the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans heard arguments Thursday morning. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott had workers deploy the roughly 1,000-foot-long string of huge spherical buoys on the river this past summer near the border city of Eagle Pass. A federal district judge ordered them removed, but they have been allowed to stay in place pending the state's appeal. The judges hearing the case did not indicate when they would rule.

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Michael Gray of the U.S. Justice Department pointed to past ferry traffic in the area, the use of the area by vessels with the U.S. Coast Guard and the International Boundary and Water Commission and the possibility of future projects to make the stretch better suited for commercial traffic as evidence that the barriers violated federal law.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, declaring that the state was under invasion from migrants, had workers deploy the roughly 1,000-foot-long string of large spherical buoys on the river this past summer near Eagle Pass.

 

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