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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has escalated measures to keep migrants from entering the U.S.

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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has escalated measures to keep migrants from entering the U.S. The Republican is pushing legal boundaries along the border with Mexico to install razor wire, deploy massive buoys on the Rio Grande and bulldoze border islands in the river. Abbott has used disaster declarations as the legal bedrock for his measures. Now blowback over the tactics is widening, including from within Texas. A state trooper’s account of officers denying migrants water in summer heat and razor w...

EAGLE PASS, Texas (AP) — Wrecking ball-sized buoys on the Rio Grande. Razor wire strung across private property without permission. Bulldozers changing the very terrain of America’s southern border. For more than two years, Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has escalated measures to keep migrants from entering the U.S., pushing legal boundaries with a go-it-alone […]

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has escalated measures to keep migrants from entering the U.S. The Republican is pushing legal boundaries along the border with Mexico to install razor wire, deploy massive buoys on the Rio Grande and bulldoze border islands in the river

For more than two years, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has escalated measures to keep migrants from entering the U.S., pushing legal boundaries with a go-it-alone bravado along the states 1,200-mile

Wrecking ball-sized buoys on the Rio Grande. Razor wire strung across private property without permission. Bulldozers changing the very terrain of America's southern border.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has escalated measures to keep migrants from entering the U.S. and is pushing legal boundaries along the border with Mexico.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott used a disaster declaration to justify his use of razor wire along the state's border with Mexico. Blowback over the tactic is continuing to grow.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has added heightened barriers – such as buoys and razor wire – along the U.S.-Mexico border, using disaster declarations as his legal bedrock. But now the tactics are prompting criticism, even within Texas.