LAREDO, Texas \u2014\u00a0Laredo is the latest area of the Texas-Mexico border to see new barriers go up.<\/p>\n
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) confirmed to Spectrum News that the federal government began installing a 50-mile stretch of buoys in the Rio Grande near the city on Monday, May 4.<\/p>\n
On the same day, Laredo city leaders decided to pay for a study on how border barriers could affect flooding and drinking water. Laredo depends fully on the Rio Grande for drinking water.<\/p>\n
Laredo Mayor Victor Trevi\u00f1o says the results of the study will be shared with CBP in hopes of a compromise that protects the border and the city\u2019s only water source.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are in this thing together. The federal government has a mandate, and we have issues here that have to be mitigated,\u201d Trevi\u00f1o said. \u201cWe\u2019re able to provide this information to them so they can make better decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n
The use of buoys in the Rio Grande is not new. The state of Texas launched several more than two years ago as part of Operation Lone Star.<\/p>\n
The group to conduct the study in Laredo has not yet been chosen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAREDO, Texas \u2014\u00a0Laredo is the latest area of the Texas-Mexico border to see new barriers go up. U.S.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,1570,102,138,25382,1724,30720,223,82,27,1569,835],"class_list":["post-288160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-ctv","tag-dallas","tag-el-paso","tag-from-the-border","tag-immigration","tag-lily-celeste","tag-news","tag-san-antonio","tag-texas","tag-texas-what-you-need-to-know","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}