July 21, 2023
By Michael Collins and Bart Jansen
...“The State of Texas’s actions (click here) violate federal law, raise humanitarian concerns, present serious risks to public safety and the environment, and may interfere with the federal government’s ability to carry out its official duties,” the department wrote in a letter to Abbott on Thursday....
July 7, 2023
Eagle Pass (click here) became the first city to have a floating barrier in the Rio Grande River designed as another safety layer to the Texas border.
The new "wall" is made of massive orange buoys with connecting netting that stretches 1,000 feet. Each stretch of barrier cost the Texas government around $1 million dollars and it will take up to two weeks to complete....
Who's brother-in-law got the check?
Who collects the dead human bodies, animals and fish? It is a public heath hazard as much as a national security issue. It will get clogged with all sorts of debris from the river. If there is enough accumulation of garbage it could create it's own islands. Once the islands form, the path over the barrier will be easy.
There is a fairly large sediment transport by the Rio Grande because it's mouth into the Gulf of Mexico gets blocked. It is a project for the Army Corps (click here). The floating wall is going to compromise any efforts carried out prior to this and will cause flooding and human tragedy on both sides of it. Texas is going to be liable for it's use.
Who is going to be jailed for the human deaths it causes?