Nearly 80% of Texas' floating border barrier is technically in Mexico, survey finds - eviltoast

A joint U.S.-Mexico topographical survey found that 787 feet of the 995-feet-long buoy line set up by Texas are in Mexico.

  • Unaware7013@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Texas has much bigger problems they should be dealing with. Having a reliable grid should be a much bigger priority than the border, but Texas would rather kill people (at the border, or just in their own homes during a snowstorm) than fix their actual problems.

    But hey, that’s the republican MO.

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          1 year ago

          There’s an easy way to avoid the murder buoy saws called “stop crossing the border illegally”.

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          If only you could use your eyes. There were never any saws only scallop edged plates designed to keep people from being able to grab between the buoys and slide through. The nets can also be understood to be barriers In place to stop people from diving under the bouys. Without seeing a picture of the nets, I cannot make any claims to their danger because they could be a fine mesh or they could be a rope net. One would be stubstantially more dangerous than the other.