After President Trump was sworn in, Gov. Greg Abbott said Texas placed more buoys in the Rio Grande along the Texas-Mexico border.
TEXAS, USA — Shortly after President Donald Trump was sworn into office Monday, Texas said the state placed more buoys in the Rio Grande.
Shortly after Trump was sworn in, an app from U.S. Customs and Border Protection ceased operations among a slew of other immigration policies announced by Trump administration officials. Experts have said some of the Trump administration border policies proposed could face legal action.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott posted on social media Monday a video of new buoys being placed in the Rio Grande at the Texas-Mexico border.
“Texas installed more buoys in the Rio Grande today to stop illegal immigration,” Abbott posted on X, formerly Twitter. “I look forward to continuing to work closely with President Trump to secure the border.
Abbott also shared a letter to Trump calling for support on the border.
The buoys had been a point of contention between Texas and the Biden administration.
As our sister station KENS reported in November, Jessie Fuentes, a member of the Eagle Pass Border Coalition, sued the state in 2023 after Gov. Gregg Abbott installed buoys in the Rio Grande. That lawsuit reportedly alleged the buoys discriminated against Mexican-Americans and Mexican nationals while also posing a detrimental risk to the environment. The Biden administration then filed a lawsuit of its own.
A federal appeals court initially sided with the Biden administration, ordering the state to move a floating barrier, but a decision by the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned that decision in July, the Associated Press reported.
In November, Gov. Greg Abbott then announced the state would expand the length of the floating barriers along the Rio Grande in Eagle Pass.
