Texas has not claimed authority to erect barriers on Mexico's side of the river. This survey complicates its defense of anti-migrant measures.
The Texas Department of Public Safety and Abbott’s office did not immediately respond to questions about the survey.Advertisement“The buoys occupy approximately three percent of the stream’s width and were placed on the shallower, U.S. side of the stream,” the state told a federal court in Austin last Wednesday.The survey showing otherwise was conducted July 27 and 28 by the U.S. and Mexican sections of the IBWC, a bilateral agency that controls the Rio Grande and its floodplain.
Mexico’s top diplomat aired complaints about the territorial violation last Thursday at meetings with Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.“Most of the buoys are on the Mexican side,” Foreign Minister Alicia Bárcena told reporters at the State Department at a joint news conference with Blinken.had pressed “that it is essential to remove the buoys installed in Mexican territory in the Rio Grande.
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