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.
. Razor wire strung across private property without permission. Bulldozers changing the very terrain of America's southern border.to keep migrants from entering the U.S., pushing legal boundaries with a go-it-alone bravado along the state's 1,200-mile border with Mexico. Now blowback over the tactics is widening, including from within Texas.
The Biden administration has said illegal border crossings have declined significantly since new immigration rulesUnder the international bridge connecting Eagle Pass, Texas, with Piedras Negras, Mexico, protesters gathered at Shelby Park this month, chanting “save the river" and blowing a conch shell in a ceremony. A few yards away, crews unloaded neon-orange buoys from trailers parked by a boat ramp off the Rio Grande.
“The river is a federally protected river by so many federal agencies, and I just don’t know how it happened,” Fuentes told the Eagle Pass City Council the night before.“I feel like the state government has kind of bypassed local government in a lot of different ways. And so I felt powerless at times,” council member Elias Diaz told The Associated Press.
Fuentes sued over the buoys, arguing that border crossings are not covered by the Texas Disaster Act. Fuentes recently sought special permission from the city and DPS to navigate through his familiar kayaking route. Victor Escalon, a DPS regional director overseeing Del Rio down to Brownsville, pointed to the governor's emergency disaster declaration. “We do everything we can to prevent crime, period. And that’s the job,” he added.In 2021, as Eagle Pass became the preferred route by migrants crossing into the U.S., Magali and Hugo Urbina bought a pecan orchard by the river that they calledHugo Urbina worked with DPS when the agency built a fence on his property and arrested migrants for trespassing.
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