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Nearly 80% of Texas' floating border barrier is technically in Mexico, survey finds (www.cbsnews.com)
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A joint U.S.-Mexico topographical survey found that 787 feet of the 995-feet-long buoy line set up by Texas are in Mexico.

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[–] [email protected] 94 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Wait what? Texas put up a border barrier without permission from the Federal government?

[–] [email protected] 120 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (14 children)

Yes and it's causing deaths (it has nets under it), so the US govt is not best pleased.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (80 children)

In the water, so anyone trying to swim across would drown.

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