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Nearly 80% of Texas' floating border barrier is technically in Mexico, survey finds (www.cbsnews.com)
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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.

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[+] -160 points 3 years ago (5 children)

The state of Texas has to deal with the problem a lot more than the feds do.

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  • [–] 97 points 3 years ago

    Too bad for Texas that the constitution outlines that only the federal government has the right to deal with other countries. Both the Treaty Clause and Logan Act cover this base. Texas is wrong.

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  • [–] 61 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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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  • [+] -49 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Having control of the border is not a partisan issue.

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  • [–] 22 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Killing people with buoy saws and nets is absolutely not a partisan issue. What is that we're discussing here, again?

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  • [+] -30 points 3 years ago

    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.

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  • [–] 28 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    You seriously think Texas has to deal with more immigration than the entirety of the rest of the U.S.?

    Critical thinking really needs to be taught in school.

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  • [+] -41 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I think that TEXAS has to deal with illegal immigration across the TEXAS boarder into TEXAS. I said nothing about anywhere else and the amount of immigrants they have to deal with.

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  • [–] 33 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    The Border Patrol and Customs (in the Department of Homeland Security) is actually responsible for securing borders. States do not get to decide how their borders are enforced.

    We all have to deal with illegal immigration, most of which doesn't even happen on the southern border. We manage to do it without building death traps or tricking people into getting on busses and sending them to states we don't like.

    I know Texas and Abbot think they're special but they're wrong.

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