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Abbott Announces New 'Floating Barriers' to Deter Illegal Immigrants
townhall.com ^ | 6/9/23 | Leah Barkoukis

Posted on 06/09/2023 8:26:22 AM PDT by cotton1706

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced Thursday the state is installing “marine floating barriers” to deter illegal immigrants from crossing the Rio Grande River.

The new barriers will be set up at illegal crossing hotspots, with the first deployed near Eagle Pass, which Texas Department of Public Safety director Steven McCraw called the “the center of gravity for smuggling.”

The inflatable balls spin when one tries to climb them, “making it more difficult to cross the Rio Grande and reach the Texas side of the southern border,” Abbott’s office said in a press release.

Installation of the buoys is beginning “pretty much immediately.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: elections
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Been governor since 2015 and is JUST NOW coming up with this idea???

He could have been doing this for the entirety of the Trump Administration, while the wall was being litigated and then built.

1 posted on 06/09/2023 8:26:22 AM PDT by cotton1706
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as in ALLIGATORS????


2 posted on 06/09/2023 8:28:09 AM PDT by Paul46360 (What??ME worry?)
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“He could have been doing this for the entirety of the Trump Administration, while the wall was being litigated and then built.”

Why didn’t Trump do it? After all, border protection is a federal issue.


3 posted on 06/09/2023 8:30:28 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: cotton1706

They should make this into a reality TV program.


4 posted on 06/09/2023 8:31:00 AM PDT by TomGuy
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Maybe it’s just me, but no one thought of swimming under these “barriers”?


5 posted on 06/09/2023 8:31:46 AM PDT by mikelets456
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Spinning beach balls? Maybe pipe in some rave music too?


6 posted on 06/09/2023 8:31:56 AM PDT by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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Can they be POPPED like a balloon?
7 posted on 06/09/2023 8:32:07 AM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: Paul46360

And as the first “migrants” especially women and children are filmed struggling and perhaps drowning in deep water they will be litigated and removed. The wall, properly built, seems more humane.


8 posted on 06/09/2023 8:32:36 AM PDT by desertsolitaire ( )
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“Why didn’t Trump do it? After all, border protection is a federal issue.”

I don’t know. It’s very frustrating.


9 posted on 06/09/2023 8:34:24 AM PDT by cotton1706
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“Maybe it’s just me, but no one thought of swimming under these “barriers”?”

Did you think about reading the article?


10 posted on 06/09/2023 8:35:56 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: CivilWarBrewing

n o


11 posted on 06/09/2023 8:36:40 AM PDT by TexasGator
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“According to McCraw, there will also be “webbing” underneath the buoys to deter swimming beneath them. “

Anchored? A few feet deep? Can’t be cut?


12 posted on 06/09/2023 8:40:59 AM PDT by mikelets456
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13 posted on 06/09/2023 8:50:39 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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14 posted on 06/09/2023 9:00:06 AM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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15 posted on 06/09/2023 9:01:29 AM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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To: cotton1706

How about sharks with laser beams attached to their heads?


16 posted on 06/09/2023 9:04:40 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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Piranhas would be better than gators.


17 posted on 06/09/2023 9:42:56 AM PDT by Fai Mao (Starve the beast and steal its food!)
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Sharks with lasers attached to their heads.


18 posted on 06/09/2023 9:45:10 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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I believe the Rio Grande is international waters and under federal jurisdiction. They’ll be ordered to be taken out by Biden.


19 posted on 06/09/2023 11:06:22 AM PDT by USCG SimTech
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Get a couple of large generators, throw some heavy duty power lines in the Rio Grande and turn of the juice.


20 posted on 06/09/2023 11:45:52 AM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots. )
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