border buoys
Coverage of border buoys in the Nexus archive.
- DHS Secretary tours border wall, meets with agents in Rio Grande Valley
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin visited the Rio Grande Valley border and met with border law enforcement agents. He viewed new border wall and border buoys installed in the Rio Grande.
- Border residents say the wall is being built on long-established flood plains
Residents in San Ygnacio, South Texas, claim the planned border wall and border buoys in the Rio Grande will violate flood hazard area restrictions and raise safety concerns.
- Border buoys dislodged and floating down Rio Grande toward Laredo, Texas
At least 120 giant border buoys, each weighing about one ton, were dislodged and floating uncontrolled down the Rio Grande from Eagle Pass, Texas, toward Laredo due to regional flooding.
- More border buoys ready to go into Rio Grande in South Texas
Dozens of giant orange border buoys have been placed near the Roma International Bridge in South Texas, ready to be deployed in the Rio Grande.
- Eagle Pass won't allow staging of border buoys at city park
The Eagle Pass City Council denied the federal government's request to stage hundreds of buoys in the Rio Grande at its city park. The buoys were part of a federal plan for the river border.