Mexico Files Complaint Over Texas Floating Barrier on Rio Grande River : NPR
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MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s top diplomat said Friday that the country has sent a diplomatic note to the U.S. government expressing concern over its weapons deployment in Texas. Rio Grande River Floating Barrier It could violate the 1944 and 1970 Conventions on Boundaries and Water.
Alicia Barcena, the secretary of foreign affairs, said Mexico would send an inspection team to the Rio Grande to see if the border wall stretched on the Mexican side of the border river.
She also complained about US efforts to install barbed wire on a low-lying island in a river near Eagle Pass, Texas.
Barcelona officials said that if the buoys blocked the flow of water, they would be in violation of a treaty that required the river to be unobstructed. Mexico has already requested the removal of the barrier.
Texas began installing a new floating barrier on the Rio Grande in early July. It’s part of Republican Governor Greg Abbott’s multi-billion dollar effort to secure the border with Mexico, which has already bussed immigrants into free countries and allowed the National Guard to make arrests. It includes
Immigration advocates have expressed concern about the drowning hazards from the buoys, and environmentalists have questioned their impact on rivers.
Once installed, the upstream portion of the system and the webbing they connect to will be anchored in the riverbed to cover 1,000 feet from the middle of the Rio Grande.
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Immigrants crossing the Rio Grande from Mexico walk in front of a large buoy that serves as a border wall on the river in Eagle Pass, Texas, Wednesday.
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Immigrants crossing the Rio Grande from Mexico walk in front of a large buoy that serves as a border wall on the river in Eagle Pass, Texas, Wednesday.
Eric Gay/AP
MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s top diplomat said Friday that the country has sent a diplomatic note to the U.S. government expressing concern over its weapons deployment in Texas. Rio Grande River Floating Barrier It could violate the 1944 and 1970 Conventions on Boundaries and Water. Alicia Barcena, the secretary of foreign affairs, said Mexico would send an inspection team to the Rio Grande to see if the border wall stretched on the Mexican side of the border river. She also complained about US efforts to install barbed wire on a low-lying island in a river near Eagle Pass, Texas.
Barcelona officials said that if the buoys blocked the flow of water, they would be in violation of a treaty that required the river to be unobstructed. Mexico has already requested the removal of the barrier. Texas began installing a new floating barrier on the Rio Grande in early July. It’s part of Republican Governor Greg Abbott’s multi-billion dollar effort to secure the border with Mexico, which has already bussed immigrants into free countries and allowed the National Guard to make arrests. It includes
Immigration advocates have expressed concern about the drowning hazards from the buoys, and environmentalists have questioned their impact on rivers. Once installed, the upstream portion of the system and the webbing they connect to will be anchored in the riverbed to cover 1,000 feet from the middle of the Rio Grande.
https://www.npr.org/2023/07/15/1187939333/mexico-texas-floating-barriers-rio-grande Mexico Files Complaint Over Texas Floating Barrier on Rio Grande River : NPR