In the final months of Donald Trump’s administration, a new plan to seal off the southern U.S. border started gaining steam: a floating water barrier to discourage migrants from trying to cross from Mexico.
The idea never materialized. But three years later, Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has put it into action.
The state installed a floating barrier of bright orange, wrecking ball-sized buoys on the Rio Grande beginning on July 8, stretching roughly the length of three soccer fields.
It is an untested strategy of deterring migrants along the U.S. border that is already fortified in wide sections by high steel fencing
