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Texas officials celebrate as court allows floating river barrier to remain at the border

A string of buoys is deployed to prevent migrants from swimming across the Rio Grande in Eagle Pass (Credit: Jordan Vonderhaar/The Texas Tribune)

Top Texas officials are celebrating after a federal appeals court allowed for the state to keep floating buoys across a sector of its southern border to deter unlawful immigration.

"The Federal Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit just ruled that Texas can KEEP these buoys in the water securing our border," said Governor Greg Abbott in a publication on X.

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