Texas must remove Rio Grande migrant barrier, US appeals court rules

[rangerrebew]

 
Texas must remove Rio Grande migrant barrier, US appeals court rules
Story by By Daniel Wiessner  •
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By Daniel Wiessner

(Reuters) - Texas must remove a 1,000-foot-long (305-meter) floating barrier it placed in the Rio Grande river to deter migrants from illegally crossing the border with Mexico, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Friday in a victory for President Joe Biden's administration.
 
The New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in a 2-1 decision declined a request by the Republican-governed state to reverse a federal judge's decision ordering it to move the string of buoys placed in the Rio Grande in July near Eagle Pass, Texas.

The 5th Circuit decided that the shallow waters where the buoys were placed were navigable, meaning that a U.S. environmental law requires Texas to receive permission from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers before installing them.

The administration has argued that the barrier is unlawfully blocking navigation and poses humanitarian concerns.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/texas-must-remove-rio-grande-migrant-barrier-us-appeals-court-rules/ar-AA1kRmlp

[rangerrebew]

The administration has argued that the barrier is unlawfully blocking navigation and poses humanitarian concerns.
 

barrier is unlawfully blocking navigation and poses humanitarian concerns.

They must have felt swimming constitutes "navigation" and any river constitutes "humanitarian concerns" of drowning.

[Smokin Joe]

Pull it up on shore, then.

[catfish1957]

Took a little wiki-digging, but all three judges are GOP appointed.  2 by Trump, and one by "W"

So, so much for the political angle.

[Fishrrman]

Fishrrman's conondrum:
If we are to save "the rule of law", we must at some point abandon it, temporarily, in order to do so.