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Texas can keep a 1,000-foot (300-meter) long floating barrier in the Rio Grande to deter illegal border crossings by migrants at the river separating the United States and Mexico, a U.S. appeals ...
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announce the deployment of an inflatable barrier along the Rio Grande River on Thursday, along with a six-bill package he signed to bolster border efforts.
In his declaration, Abbott cited the Mexico–United States border crisis and the need to secure the border. The Texas National Guard blocked U.S. Border Patrol agents from patrolling the area, which the Border Patrol had been using to hold migrants in recent weeks. [71] [72] After the closure, three migrants were found drowned in the Rio Grande.
Migrant crossings in this area have dropped from over 10,000 one December day to about 200 per day recently. In all, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) had almost 250,000 migrant encounters ...
The Los Ebanos Port of Entry is the U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility that is used to inspect passengers and vehicles entering the US from Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, Tamaulipas via the Los Ebanos Ferry. A new border station was built in 2011. [5] The port of entry has been the site of occasional seizures of marijuana found hidden in vehicle ...
Amistad Dam (Spanish: Presa la Amistad) is a major embankment dam across the Rio Grande between Texas, United States, and Coahuila, Mexico.Built to provide irrigation water storage, flood control, and hydropower generation, it is the largest dam along the international boundary reach of the Rio Grande. [1]
The Mexico–United States border crisis is an ongoing migrant crisis in North America concerning the illegal migration of people into the United States. U.S. Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump both referred to surges in migrants at the border as a "crisis" during their tenure. [ 7 ]
Authorities in Texas began arresting migrants late Wednesday evening at Shelby Park in Eagle Pass and beyond in the latest escalation of the migrant surge at the US-Mexico border.