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Appeals court allows Texas to keep Rio Grande barriers in place

A kayaker walks past large buoys being used as a floating border barrier on the Rio Grande, in Eagle Pass, Texas.
A kayaker walks past large buoys being used as a floating border barrier on the Rio Grande, in Eagle Pass, Texas. Photograph: Eric Gay/AP

A US appeals court has granted a temporary stay allowing Texas to keep in place floating buoys installed in the middle of the Rio Grande to block migrants from crossing the US-Mexico border, as court proceedings move forward, a court filing showed.

A federal judge had ordered Texas on Wednesday to move the controversial line of floating buoys in what was seen as a tentative win for Joe Biden, after the US president’s administration sued the state.

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