Houston Chronicle by Jeremy Wallace 8/22/2023
https://link.houstonchronicle.com/view/5b0232662ddf9c12eaecd67ejbwdc.o/33eadbc2On the eve of a big court hearing that could force Texas to remove its buoy barrier in the Rio Grande, Gov. Greg Abbott was squeezing every last ounce of public relations out of them that he could.
In Eagle Pass, Abbott had four other Republican governors on a helicopter ride with him to see the buoys. Then he held a press conference with the governors not far from the location of the buoy barrier where each state leader took jabs at President Joe Biden over the border.
“Joe Biden is not doing his job," Abbott said with governors of Oklahoma, Nebraska, South Dakota and Iowa standing by him.
All that comes before the big hearing on Tuesday morning in Austin where a judge will consider forcing Abbott to remove the buoys within 10 days while the federal lawsuit over them moves on. The U.S. Department of Justice has sued Texas, saying it violated a federal law that requires preapproval from the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers before putting barriers in navigable waterways.
