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Trump admin to install 17 miles of buoys in border river: The Trump administration will soon take a proven barrier concept and apply it to a 17-mile stretch of the Rio Grande along the Texas-Mexico border. That concept is a floating buoy barrier, which Texas deployed along a mile-long stretch of the river near Eagle Pass. Border Patrol "was studying their use at the end of Trump 45 and thought they were an excellent method to secure the border and save lives," explained Border Czar Tom Homan. "They were not deployed because the administration changed hands. Gov. Abbott deployed them soon after and proved that they were very effective." When Texas first deployed its buoy wall in 2023, the Biden administration took the state to court. Now, under Trump, the DOJ is in the process of dropping its case against Texas.