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Texas ordered to remove buoys meant to block migrants from Rio Grande River

A border patrol boat navigates alongside a string of buoys in the Rio Grande in Eagle Pass, Texas.
A border patrol boat navigates alongside a string of buoys in the Rio Grande in Eagle Pass, Texas. Photograph: Suzanne Cordeiro/AFP/Getty Images

A US judge ordered Texas to move a line of floating buoys that were placed in the middle of the Rio Grande to block migrants from crossing the US-Mexico border. The ruling is a tentative win for the Biden administration after the Department of Justice (DoJ) sued the state.

The federal judge David Ezra on Wednesday issued a preliminary injunction in the state capital of Austin that requires Texas to relocate the controversial buoys, currently near the city of Eagle Pass, to an embankment on the Texas side of the river.

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