Photo: Texas’ Border Buoys

Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has put in a 1,000-foot string of 4-foot-high vibrant orange buoys in the midst of the Rio Grande at Eagle Go, which is a typical—and regularly lethal—crossing level for immigrants. The floating barrier will value about $1 million and can cowl solely a small portion of the 1,254 miles of river alongside the Texas border with Mexico. Steve McCraw, director of the Texas Division of Public Security, admitted at a press convention that the barrier can nonetheless be crossed with “nice effort.” On August 2, the Mexican Ministry of Overseas Affairs reported {that a} physique was discovered caught within the buoys, only one month after they had been put in.