Mexico's president attacks 'inhumane' floating barriers deployed by Texas | CNN
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Mexico’s President Andres Manuel López Obrador has condemned Texas’s anti-migrant buoys, calling the border enforcement tactic on the Rio Grande river “inhumane” after bodies were found in the waters that flow along the US-Mexico border.

he floating barrier, which is intended to block migrants crossing from Mexico, was installed last month without federal authorization, according to the US Justice Department, which is suing the state of Texas over its use of the buoys.

The Mexican government has also decried Abbott’s decision to float the buoys. Last week, Mexican Secretary of Foreign Relations Alicia Bárcena Ibarra said her country had sent its second diplomatic note to the US complaining about the barriers.

They not only violate two treaties between the US and Mexico, she said, but a slide that accompanied her remarks claimed that a portion of the 305 meters of deployed buoy is on “Mexican territory.”

López Obrador on Thursday warned that the buoys violated Mexico’s “sovereignty and human rights,” adding that “we are already demanding that these buoys be removed.”

  • roguetrick@kbin.social
    292·
    1 year ago

    Okay, that’s a booby trap, not just a barrier. Common law should allow the migrants surviving family to sue the state of Texas for wrongful death. Those things were designed to kill anyone that encountered them, and that’s not lawful.

    Edit: Frankly, this isn’t just civilly unlawful, this is criminal murder. I just don’t think Texas would prosecute it and I don’t really know that the feds could claim jurisdiction.