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(The Guardian) Judge orders Texas to move anti-migrant buoys in Rio Grande
A federal judge ordered Texas to remove floating barriers that were placed in the Rio Grande to block migrants from illegally crossing the US-Mexico border, in a tentative win for the Biden adminstration.
The US district court judge David Ezra ordered Texas to relocate the buoys, currently near the city of Eagle Pass, to an embankment on the Texas side of the river by 15 September. The order came as part of a lawsuit filed by the Biden administration against Texas, who argued that the barrier illegally disrupts navigation and was installed without permission from the US army corps of engineers.
“Governor Abbott announced that he was not ‘asking for permission’ for Operation Lone Star, the anti-immigration program under which Texas constructed the floating barrier,” Ezra wrote in a 42-page order. -- Unfortunately for Texas, permission is exactly what federal law requires before installing obstructions in the nation’s navigable waters.
He added that the state “did not present any credible evidence that the buoy barrier as installed has significantly curtailed illegal immigration across the Rio Grande River”.
The ruling is a setback for the Texas governor, Greg Abbott, who said the state would appeal. He said: Today’s court decision merely prolongs President Biden’s willful refusal to acknowledge that Texas is rightfully stepping up to do the job that he should have been doing all along.
A federal judge ordered Texas to remove floating barriers that were placed in the Rio Grande to block migrants from illegally crossing the US-Mexico border, in a tentative win for the Biden adminstration.
The US district court judge David Ezra ordered Texas to relocate the buoys, currently near the city of Eagle Pass, to an embankment on the Texas side of the river by 15 September. The order came as part of a lawsuit filed by the Biden administration against Texas, who argued that the barrier illegally disrupts navigation and was installed without permission from the US army corps of engineers.
“Governor Abbott announced that he was not ‘asking for permission’ for Operation Lone Star, the anti-immigration program under which Texas constructed the floating barrier,” Ezra wrote in a 42-page order. -- Unfortunately for Texas, permission is exactly what federal law requires before installing obstructions in the nation’s navigable waters.
He added that the state “did not present any credible evidence that the buoy barrier as installed has significantly curtailed illegal immigration across the Rio Grande River”.
The ruling is a setback for the Texas governor, Greg Abbott, who said the state would appeal. He said: Today’s court decision merely prolongs President Biden’s willful refusal to acknowledge that Texas is rightfully stepping up to do the job that he should have been doing all along.
