Posted on 07/08/2023 7:41:26 AM PDT by thegagline
Workers in Texas have begun installing a floating barrier along the Rio Grande in an effort to deter migrants from crossing the dangerous river to enter the US illegally.
“The buoys have arrived and the installation of the marine barrier on the Rio Grande begins today,” read a tweet posted by the Texas Department of Public Safety on Friday.
The first 1,000-foot section of interconnected 4-foot-wide sphere buoys – that spin when grabbed – is being installed near Eagle Pass, Texas, a hot spot for illegal border crossings.
The floating barrier is designed to be moved and extended to cover other parts of the Rio Grande if necessary, according to Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.
“New marine barrier installation on the Rio Grande begins today. Texas DPS is overseeing the project in Eagle Pass,” Abbott wrote on Twitter Friday.
The governor’s tweet included a video showing dozens of the bright orange buoys being taken off multiple flatbed trucks.
This new barrier is part of Operation Lone Star – a state border security effort launched by the governor in 2021.
The water-based barrier, designed by the company Cochrane USA, will cost the state $1 million, according to Texas Department of Public Safety director Steve McCraw.
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Invasions call for anti personnel mines
Yep, get some baby gators and a few big ones to start the ball. We’re always finding gators poppin’ up in weird places.
Go Gators!
Major heat wave along the border for the perceivable future. They may just want to hang out in the lazy river.
The protesters are out there already. Funny how the media avoids anything along the border invasion and now all of a sudden this is news.
One migrant swims under a buoy to the other side, then holds it from spinning while the rest climb over.
A ladder on each side would work, too.
Capital idea. You’ve got a good head on your shoulders.
Great.
Now I can see Ninja Warrior MX swing filmed there.
Seriously, hope it helps
They are Democrats, not Republicans. Only Republicans get charged.
Do it.
And you know there ain’t jack chit we can do about it. And I don’t want to hear that we will round them up and send them back to their native land. Because you and I know that that’s an impossibility. Just look at California that should be an eye-opening experience. The majority of Californians are Third World nation occupiers who have walked into our nation unabated for years and years and have destroyed that beautiful state. California resembles a third world country exactly like Mexico. The United States will rapidly become an mirror image of California.
Yep, we’re reduced to impotently making cutesy jokes, but this treason is going to bring the country down. We’ll never recover from barbarian invasion. Every toilet country on earth is sending us their worst. Amazing.
Is the ‘Regime sending cluster munitions to Ukraine so that nobody gets the idea to use them here on the US Border?
I wonder which Texas Politican’s relative owns the company that makes these Rube Goldberg Contraptions.
Not a chance, the Mexicans would turn them into fajitas, boots and belts in short order. And don't even consider a electric fence either, every home in Mexico would have an extension cord attached to it.
Many years ago the US, Canada and Mexico established the International Boundary Commission to manage both the southern and northern border.
All three parties will demand its removal because they did not approve it and the US is in material breach of the treaty.
What stops one from swimming under the balls and keep on going?
A radioactive strip across the border would be highly efficient and cost effective. Number of live crossers - 0.
Have you ever seen a Mexican winning an Olympic Medal for swimming? In fact, no Mexican has even qualified for an Olympic swimming event.
Joking
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