Greg Abbott Defends Circular-Saw Floating Barriers as Backlash Grows. Published Aug 11, 2023 at 6:32 AM EDT Updated Aug 12, 2023 at 10:48 AM EDT. By .

Texas Governor Greg Abbott's floating barrier on the Rio Grande came with a $1 million price tag.. Abbott has challenged President Joe Biden's administration on its efforts to protect the U.S ...

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.

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 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 ...

Mexico Demands Texas Remove Floating Barrier of Buoys with Saw Blades in Rio Grande. Headline Aug 11, 2023. Link copied. ... Between the buoys there are circular saw blades.

This floating barrier was installed in July close to the town of Eagle Pass located ... “There are serrated metal plates that look like circular saw blades between each buoy to deter anyone ...

Floating border barrier in Texas must be removed, ... U.S. District Judge David Ezra ruled that the 1,000-foot-long string of large buoys and saw blades in Eagle Pass, ...

Migrants walk past large buoys being used as a floating border barrier on the Rio Grande Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023, ... each separated by a rounded blade with serrated edges similar to a circular saw.

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. The ...

A federal judge on Wednesday ordered Texas to reposition floating barriers the state placed in the middle of the Rio Grande, rebuking one of the more contentious elements of Gov. Greg Abbott’s ...

A floating barrier to deter migrants from crossing the Grand River into the United States through Eagle Pass, Texas is seen from Piedras Negras, Coahuila state, Mexico on August 4, 2023.