Eagle Pass, the American, faces her twin, Piedras Negras, the Mexican.
Only a river separates them, but it is now impossible to cross.
The Texan city has become the symbol of the migration crisis in the United States since a month ago, Governor Greg Abbott decided to increasingly shade the Rio Grande with fences and barbed wire.
Razor blades prevent reaching, on the American side, the Shelby municipal park, the adjacent golf course or even the land under the Camino Real international bridge.
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Likening migrants to enemies, Greg Abbott, who supported Donald Trump two months before his coup, invoked a foreign invasion clause to justify the use of the Texas National Guard.
His men went so far as to block access to federal border patrol agents, who were using the area as a processing and registration center for illegal migrants.
Like an air of secession…
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