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Biden administration sues Texas governor over Rio Grande buoy barrier that’s meant to stop migrants
Associated Press ^ | July 24, 2023 | Paul J. Weber and Valerie Gonzalez

Posted on 07/24/2023 7:35:15 PM PDT by Olog-hai

The Justice Department on Monday sued Texas Gov. Greg Abbott over a newly installed floating barrier on the Rio Grande that is the Republican’s latest aggressive tactic to try to stop migrants from crossing into the U.S. from Mexico.

The lawsuit asks a federal judge in Austin to force Texas to remove a roughly 1,000-foot (305-meter) line of bright orange, wrecking ball-sized buoys that the Biden administration says raises humanitarian and environmental concerns. The suit claims that Texas unlawfully installed the barrier without permission between the border cities of Eagle Pass and Piedras Negras, Mexico.

The buoys are the latest escalation of Texas’ border security operation that also includes razor-wire fencing, arresting migrants on trespassing charges and sending busloads of asylum-seekers to Democratic-led cities in other states. Critics have long questioned the effectiveness of the two-year operation, known as Operation Lone Star. A state trooper’s account this month that some of the measures injured migrants has put the mission under intensifying new scrutiny. […]

In a letter last week, the Justice Department gave Texas until Monday to commit to removing the barrier or face a lawsuit. The letter said the buoy wall “poses a risk to navigation, as well as public safety, in the Rio Grande River, and it presents humanitarian concerns.” …

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Mexico; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: aliens; biden; bidenregime; buoys; doj; fjb; riogrande; river; texas; usurperbiden
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To: facedown

It’s unconstitutional. No state can interfere with navigable waters…

Texas is absolutely violating the constitution with this.


21 posted on 07/24/2023 11:25:51 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: CatOwner

Exactly.

To heck with them.


22 posted on 07/25/2023 1:12:10 AM PDT by TheWriterTX (Trust not in earthly princes....!)
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To: HamiltonJay

Article 4, Section 4:

The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.


23 posted on 07/25/2023 2:31:28 AM PDT by jimjohn (We're at war, people. Start acting like it.)
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To: Olog-hai

Associated Press: QUIT CALLING THEM “MIGRANTS.” They are illegal criminal alien invaders. Always have been, always will be. QUIT!!


24 posted on 07/25/2023 2:34:45 AM PDT by upchuck (EV owners should ONLY be able to charge their cars with wind and solar, otherwise it's just pretend.)
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To: HamiltonJay

>It’s unconstitutional. No state can interfere with navigable waters…<

The barriers run parallel to the shoreline, not perpendicular. You can still take your blowup kayak for a trip down the Rio Grande. Just don’t venture too close to the Mexico side. They might shoot you.

EC


25 posted on 07/25/2023 2:43:20 AM PDT by Ex-Con777
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To: Olog-hai

It’s just a “don’t go beyond this point” for American swimmers.


26 posted on 07/25/2023 4:24:58 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: Olog-hai

Marxist Dems don’t want to stop any illegals, they want the new voters to succeed.


27 posted on 07/25/2023 5:31:21 AM PDT by chopperk
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To: jimjohn

And your point being?

Your citation does not change that Texas is violating the constitution with these barriers.

You want to argue the fed is also violating the constitution, that’s fine, but that doesn’t mean that a state can violate it as well.

Texas is free to sue the fed for violation of the constitution but they cannot also violate it as well.. impede navigable waters, is unconstitutional, Texas cannot do this.


28 posted on 07/25/2023 6:02:09 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: HamiltonJay

...to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, —That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness..

... Thats my point.


29 posted on 07/25/2023 6:21:33 AM PDT by jimjohn (We're at war, people. Start acting like it.)
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To: Olog-hai

Misspelled illegal aliens again.


30 posted on 07/25/2023 6:22:45 AM PDT by themidnightskulker
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To: jimjohn

Quoting the declaration of independence doesn’t change a thing.

The state is violating your rights and the constitution. You as a free citizen are guaranteed the free navigation of waterways.. Texas’ barriers are a direct violation and infringement upon the rights of citizens. They are unconstitutional.

You seem to think that citing what you believe to be the Fed not living up to its constitutional requirements, means Texas is justified in trampling on individuals rights and overstepping their authority.

This is just not the case. You and I the actual people are being HARMED by BOTH of these entities, the fed not living up to its requirements harms us, and TEXAS trampling on our rights also harms us.

Arguing one is justified because the other is doing something also is a rather stupid argument to be making.

Hey the fed is harming my rights as a citizen, so its fine for my state to trample even more of my rights...

You are literally arguing that your state has the right to repress you because the fed is repressing you in another way... with that kind of argument going on, its no wonder that the country is in the state its in.


31 posted on 07/25/2023 6:29:07 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: Olog-hai

Ignore the lawsuit and any “order” the judge may hand down.

L


32 posted on 07/25/2023 6:30:01 AM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Olog-hai

I suspect that a majority of Texans would support the use of guns, claymores, and more to stop this crap.


33 posted on 07/25/2023 7:50:26 AM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: Olog-hai

Illegal aliens

Identify
Locate
Deport

No exceptions


34 posted on 07/25/2023 11:53:26 AM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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