Earlier this year, then-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem unveiled a new floating barrier system that the Trump administration plans to deploy along portions of the U.S.-Mexico border, with a goal of eventually covering up to 500 miles of waterways along the Rio Grande.
Federal authorities have gradually expanded the installation of the giant cylindrical buoys in South Texas. The latest deployment took place this week in Eagle Pass, where nearly 300 additional buoys were installed in the Rio Grande.