AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — In the final months of the Trump administration, a new plan to seal off the United States’ southern border started gaining steam: a floating water barrier to discourage ...

The BriefDHS signed a waiver to quickly build a 17-mile buoy barrier in the Rio Grande, Cameron County, Texas.The waiver, ...

U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem signed a waiver to speed up placement of a segment of water ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican government reported for the first time Wednesday that a body was spotted along the floating barrier that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott installed recently in the Rio ...

White House project follows Republican governor Abbott's controversial 2023 installation of a 1,000-foot string of buoys in ...

The Department of Homeland Security is putting 17 miles of river water barrier in the Rio Grande in Cameron County in deep ...

DHS Secretary Noem signed a waiver to expedite a 17-mile waterborne barrier in the Rio Grande for border security.

Texas wants the court to accept an agreed set of facts between the two sides, that Texas "caused the Floating Buoy Barrier to be placed in the Rio Grande River about two miles downstream from the ...

Texas authorities added even more buoys into the Rio Grande on Wednesday to stop illegal crossing after the Biden administration unsuccessfully sued the state over its floating border barriers.

On the U.S.-Mexico border, they are perhaps the most visible symbol of Gov. Greg Abbott’s effort to deter migrants from entering Texas: giant, orange buoys floating in the Rio Grande, designed ...

The idea to install a floating barrier along the Texas-Mexico border to deter illegal immigration came from U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, the South Texas Democrat told Newsweek. Cuellar, who represents ...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar is claiming some credit for Texas’ controversial buoys to prevent migrants from crossing the Rio Grande, saying he pitched the idea to Border Patrol years ago.