Texas Governor Greg Abbott has defended the state's controversial saw floating barriers in the face of growing criticism and backlash from Democrats and human-rights advocates.

Approximately 1,000 feet of the barrier was installed on the Rio Grande, costing Texas $1 million.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) has come under fire after videos surfaced on social media showing the floating border barrier made of buoys with “circular saw blades” on them. Democratic Texas Reps ...

Little did I know that six years later, this same company, Cochrane, would give us the floating barrier, with its wrecking ball–sized buoys connected side by side with circular saws.

Mexican officials are demanding Texas remove its border buoys from the Rio Grande, saying the floating barrier, aimed at blocking asylum seekers from reaching the United States, was installed on ...

A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals handed Gov. Greg Abbott and the state of Texas win late Thursday, allowing a floating barrier of buoys and circular saw blades to ...

The Fifth Circuit ruled Tuesday that Texas will be able to continue using its floating barriers in the Rio Grande river in order to deter illegal immigrant crossings. Last June Republican Texas ...

A federal judge in Texas has ruled that a controversial floating border barrier in the Rio Grande River violates federal law and must be removed. U.S. District Judge David Ezra ruled that the ...

Texas placed the spiked barriers in the river without federal permission as part of Operation Lone Star, a $4 billion effort to block illegal border crossings.

The Justice Department sued over the barrier in July, which has been implicated in at least two migrant deaths and many more injuries. The buoys are separated by circular saw blades along a 1,000 ...

Some social media users and politicians say such a device has been placed in the Rio Grande River to purposefully injure those who try and enter the US from Mexico.