Texas Governor Greg Abbott's flagship policy, Operation Lone Star, has encountered a setback after the failure of newly installed floating barriers designed to deter illegal entry into the U.S.

The floating barrier will be placed near Eagle Pass next month Abbott's plan is to place a string of 4-foot-high, bright orange buoys in the middle of the Rio Grande, according to mock images ...

The judge gave Texas until Sept. 15 to move the barrier to shore and barred the state from placing any additional buoys or other structures in the river. Gov. Greg Abbott plans to appeal the ruling.

“Rocky” has ruffled feathers in Palm Beach with a proposal to install a floating barrier in the Intracoastal Waterway near his $35 million estate.

The wrecking ball-sized buoys that make up the floating barrier that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott installed in July in the Rio Grande have circular saws between them, according to a video posted by Rep ...

AUSTIN, Texas — A federal judge on Wednesday ordered Texas to move a large floating barrier to the bank of the Rio Grande after protests from the the U.S. and Mexican governments over Republican ...

Texas spent $850,000 on the barrier, which is made up of a 1,000-foot-long string of buoys separated by saw blades supporting a submerged mesh net.. Why the federal government sued: In July 2023 ...

July 26, 2023 - The U.S. Justice Department sought a court order requiring Texas to remove its floating barrier on the Texas-Mexico border, Texas Tribune reported. “Texas’s deployment of the ...

Nearly 80% of the controversial floating barrier Texas state officials assembled in the middle of the Rio Grande to deter migrant crossings is technically on the Mexican side of the U.S.-Mexico ...

Mexico recovers 2 bodies from the Rio Grande, one found near a floating barrier that Texas installed. Mexico's Foreign Relations Department reported for the first time on Wednesday that a body had ...