(WBAP/KLIF) — Texas attorneys asked federal appeals court judges Thursday to let the state keep large concrete-anchored buoys in place to block migrants from crossing the Rio Grande — a floating barrier that the Biden Administration says was illegally deployed without required federal authorization.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott declared that the state was under invasion from migrants and had workers deploy the roughly 1,000-foot-long string of large spherical buoys on the river this past summer near Eagle Pass.
Three judges with the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans heard arguments Thursday morning. A federal district judge ordered them removed, but they have been allowed to stay in place pending the state’s appeal. The judges hearing the case did not indicate when they would rule.
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