Texas Expands Buoy Barrier in Rio Grande Along U.S.-Mexico Border After Trump’s Inauguration – One America News Network
OAN Staff Brooke Mallory
1:16 PM – Wednesday, January 22, 2025
Officials from Texas have announced that additional buoys will be installed in the Rio Grande River, shortly after President Donald Trump assumed office on Monday.
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The Trump administration has introduced a series of immigration policies following his inauguration, including the discontinuation of the U.S. Customs and Border app CBP One, which was implemented during the Biden administration and enabled illegal immigrants to enter the U.S. through a “legal loophole.”
This app permitted at least 1 million non-citizens to enter since January 2023, while others generally made their way across the border via human smuggling (voluntary), trafficking (involuntary), or coercion.
However, some legal representatives from the Democratic side have indicated that they may pursue legal challenges against certain immigration and border control measures proposed by the Trump administration.
On Monday, Governor Greg Abbott (R-Texas) posted a video of the installation of new buoys along the Rio Grande at the Texas-Mexico border on social media.
The governor also conveyed a letter to Trump requesting maximal support at the border under Constitutional authority. “Together, we will resolve the border crisis,” he concluded.
The installation of these buoys has sparked tensions between the Biden administration and the state of Texas.
After Abbott’s deployment of buoys in the Rio Grande, Jessie Fuentes, a member of the Eagle Pass Border Coalition, lodged a lawsuit against the state in 2023. The lawsuit contends that the buoys pose a “harm” to the environment while “discriminating against Mexican-Americans and Mexican nationals.”
Subsequently, the Biden administration filed its own legal action against Texas.
Nonetheless, the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals later overturned a prior July ruling from a federal appeals court that had sided with the Biden administration, instructing the state to remove a floating barrier.
Following Trump’s electoral victory, Abbott announced in November that the state would be extending the length of the floating barriers in the Rio Grande.
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