Texas will install a "new aquatic barrier of buoys" on the Rio Grande to prevent the crossing of migrants. The first 300,1 feet (000 meters) of the floating barrier will be deployed near Eagle Pass in Maverick County at a cost of just under a million dollars.
Texas' new package of measures comes as the number of migrant crossings across the southern border has fallen 70 percent, according to official figures. The reduction responds largely to the end of the sanitary norm known as Title 42.