From 7 May: "HARLINGEN, Texas (Border Report) — The federal government has begun installing waterborne buoys in the Rio Grande in Laredo, Texas, City Councilwoman Melissa Cigarroa says.
Construction began Wednesday (6 May 2026), Cigarroa said on Thursday’s episode Border Report Live.
She said the council has been told they cannot stop the installation of the giant orange buoys, which are meant to stop immigration from Mexico."
Some of the wildest Cartel violence in all of Mexico (which is saying a lot) has been just across this open river from Laredo, Texas; in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas. Now it is getting buttoned up with barrier in the River, and Bollards and tall embankment walls (Downtown) on the US bank, as well as a host of new detection technology.
Laredo is also incorporated into the Department of the Air Force's Del Rio-Falcon National Defense Area (NDA) 6, covering approximately 150 miles of the border from Falcon Dam, Texas — about 270 miles west of the mouth of the Rio Grande River — to Del Rio, Texas, approximately 420 miles west of the river’s mouth.