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The federal government plans to cylindrical buoys along 536 miles of the Rio Grande in order to prevent illegal crossings from Mexico. Each buoy is more than 12 feet long and four or five feet in diameter.
Contractors are already installing the buoys in a 17-mile stretch of the river. The Department of Homeland Security has granted more than a billion dollars in contracts to private companies to place the buoys.
In 2023, Texas installed a thousand feet of buoys in the river at Eagle Pass, resulting in a lawsuit from the Biden administration.
