Border Hawk correspondent Efraín González reports the following (translated from Spanish):
On the first day of President Donald Trump’s administration, the state of Texas installed more buoys, thus reinforcing the floating wall placed on the Rio Grande on the border between Eagle Pass and Piedras Negras.
In a video broadcast by social networks Texas Gov. Gregg Abbott announced the reinforcement of the floating barrier in the Rio Grande at the locationg of the Morelos colony.
“I look forward to continuing to work closely with President Trump to secure the border. AMERICA IS BACK!” wrote the Texan governor on his social networks.
Instala Texas más boyas en el Río Bravo en primer día de gobierno de Trump
— Efraín González (@efraiinGzz) January 22, 2025
In November of 2024, Abbott confirmed that the floating wall on the Rio Grande at Eagle Pass had been extended as part of Operation Lone Star.
In July of 2023, the Texas government placed a buoy wall of approximately 300 meters on the Rio Grande, in order to create a floating barrier on the Rio Grande at Eagle Pass and thus prevent the crossing of migrants to U.S. territory.
In August of that same year, elements of the Texas Department of Public Safety found the body of a Honduran woman stuck in the southern part of the buoys of the aforementioned floating wall.
