In addition to the border infrastructure funded by One Big Belfy Bill of President Trump, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced its intention to quickly install 17 miles of floating border barrier in the Texas Rio Grande Valley. The secretary of the DHS, Kristi Noem, signed a derogation on Thursday to ensure that the construction of the barrier is not hampered by environmental regulations.
According to DHS, the water barrier will be built in the Rio Grande in the County of Cameron, Texas, in the Rio Grande Valley sector of the United States patrol. The offers of the RGV Waterborne Barrier project were requested and the project is planned to finance the price before the end of the 2025 financial year in September.
Project funding will come from customs and American border protection credits. Secretary Noem has signed five other regulatory derogations since the inauguration of President Trump, which allow infrastructure projects, including border wall projects to continue quickly and avoid long environmental surveys.
THE San Antonio Express-News called The order of secretary Kristi Noem the suite “militarization of the southern border”.
The water buoy barrier is not a new concept along the Texas / Mexico border. As Breitbart Texas reported in July 2023, the Governor of Texas Abbott began the installation of buoy barriers in Eagle Pass, Texas. At the time, the small border town was the epicenter of the border crisis of Biden and remained one of the busiest areas for illegal border crossings for more than a year.
Abbott’s project was opposed to a small group of open borders who organized a demonstration along the Rio Grande in the small border town. As reported by Breitbart Texas, about two dozen demonstrators have chanted and deployed panels criticizing the Border Buoy project of Abbott on day materials for the barrier project.
In addition to the little outcry of a few demonstrators, the Texas Buoy project met with legal action submitted by the Biden administration. At one point in the legal argument between Abbott, then President Biden, a federal court of appeal ordered the Rio Grande barrier withdrawn.
The court’s decision was quickly canceled when the full court published a suspension in a 10-7 vote which enabled the floating border barrier to remain a victory to the Governor of Texas.
The Border Buoy project announced by the DHS will be the first barrier project transmitted to water undertaken by the Trump administration. According to the DHS, the project will eliminate a difference in capacity that has been identified in the navigable waterways along the southwest border where drug smuggling occurs, the trafficking in human beings and other dangerous and illegal activities.
The department claims that the project will create a safer border environment for patrol agents as well as to dissuade illegal border crossings in dangerous sails.
Randy Clark is a 32-year-old veteran of the United States border patrol. Before his retirement, he was head of the law implementation division, leading the operations of nine border patrol stations in the Del Rio sector in Texas. Follow it on X (formerly Twitter) @randyClarkbbtx.
