A joint U.S.-Mexico topographical survey found that 787 feet of the 995-feet-long buoy line set up by Texas are in Mexico.
Sounds like Mexico can just take down most of this thing.
Edit: As a US citizen, I support Mexico’s immigration services to detain any Texas construction workers that illegally cross the border to service this thing.
I also would support the governor of this region of Mexico to put these construction workers on a bus and drop them deep in the heart of Mexico somewhere.
They should. Send Abbott a bill for polluting their waterway too, while they’re at it.
Probably the only reason Mexico hasn’t already pulled it out is because they don’t want to waste money that they know will never be reimbursed to them.
Maybe the US will take it down and bill Texas themselves.
Removing it has to be cheaper than installing it. Bleed Abbott if he wants to play this game.
Depends how much cheaper I guess. Texas is about 70% richer than Mexico (by GDP)
As funny as it would be, taking it out on construction workers who probably didn’t choose to be there seems a little unfair
They should just be drowned. That’s the purpose for this barrier, so I think it’d be fair to drown anyone working to construct it. (I don’t condone drowning the workers, but the workers should stand up against their employers due to drowning risk. If they don’t listen, maybe they should have an “accident” and “drown” instead and the workers take control.)
Every state’s geography has different challenges. Texas is blessed with natural resources and rich farmland. It is a rich state. Spending that money on murder buoys instead of immigration services is a crime against humanity.
LOL CBS! There is no such thing as “technically” in Mexico. The barrier is in Mexico and Mexican authorities should just cut it up and remove it.
They should sell it back to Texas at a huge markup. Then when it floats back over to their waters, sell it back again, and again, and again. Endless money stream.
This game has so many infinite money glitches.
Can we just wall off Texas at this point? Let them have their own shitty country
Let’s give it back to Mexico, the Republicans were screaming that we should let Russia have Ukraine because it used to be part of Russia, and as it turns out Texas used to be part of Mexico. Problem solved.
Throw in Florida as a tip.
Damn, you really hate Mexicans don’t you?
Calm down, Satan!
Hey, some of us don’t have a choice but to be here.
I’m in Idaho, so fair enough
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I had to move to low-income housing because no job I’m able to get pays enough for a ‘real’ apartment. I can move to my hometown, but It’s the same thing there. I barely make enough to get by. Were it not for my wife also working, we’d both be homeless.
Trust me. I’d love to move somewhere else, where a post-high school education wouldn’t make me more broke than I am, where good jobs grow on trees, and where housing is reasonably priced. But I can’t. So I Vite blue and get shit on for it here. But I do it anyway, because the asshole fascists that run this state sure as hell haven’t made my life any easier.
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US: “Everything on this side of the line is ours, those are the rules.”
Mexico: “But you can’t keep moving the line into my side, that’s not fair!”
US “Yeah huh, mom said that’s how it works.”
Mexico: “No she didn’t! You’re lying!”
México would actually end with : chinga tu madre!
Heyyyyy… TU MADRE!!
From the article:
Nearly 80% of the controversial floating barrier Texas state officials assembled in the middle of the Rio Grande to deter migrant crossings is technically on the Mexican side of the U.S.-Mexico border, according to a federal government survey released on Tuesday.
The revelation was made public in a federal court filing by the Biden administration in its lawsuit against the barrier, which Texas set up in July as part of an initiative directed by Gov. Greg Abbott to repel migrants and repudiate President Biden’s border policies.
The river barrier, assembled near the Texas border town of Eagle Pass, has come under national and international scrutiny, including from the Mexican government, which has strongly voiced its objections to the buoys. Advocates, Democratic lawmakers and a Texas state medic have also expressed concerns about the structures diverting migrants to deeper parts of the river where they are more likely to drown.
Earlier this month Mexican officials recovered two bodies from the Rio Grande, including one that was found floating along the barrier, but the circumstances of the deaths are still under investigation. Mexican officials condemned the barrier in announcing the discovery of the bodies. But Steve McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, said preliminary information indicated that the first person found dead had “drowned upstream from the marine barrier and floated into the buoys.”
Abbott and other Texas officials have insisted the buoys are necessary to stop migrants from entering the U.S. illegally, and the state has refuted claims it violated federal law and international treaties when it set up the floating barriers without permission from the Biden administration or Mexico. (Article continues)
and the state has refuted claims it violated federal law and international treaties when it set up the floating barriers without permission from the Biden administration or Mexico. (Article continues)
That’s the clincher. States are 100% not allowed to treat internationally or make policies regarding other countries.
Building a fence has nothing to do with that. If Texas had setup a federal border crossing, that would be illegal. If Texas had that fence constructed in such a way that a federal border crossing were blocked off, that would be illegal. A natural land border augmented with a fence isn’t an international incident and you don’t need permission from the federal government to do that.
50% of the river even that photo shows it’s nonsense
I was pro border wall until this
Guys no one tell the democrats that increased border security dispraportionately benefits mexico over the U.S.
How so? Is this because it prevent workers from leaving/brain drain?
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If the barrier is still floating, there aren’t any gang members or ne’er-do-wells even attempting to cross it. If there were, the silly thing would be on the bottom of the river with bullet holes in it.
So Mexico built the wall and Texas taxpayers paid for it. Brilliant!
