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Nearly 80% of Texas' floating border barrier is technically in Mexico, survey finds (www.cbsnews.com)

submitted 1 year ago by livus@kbin.social to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

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A joint U.S.-Mexico topographical survey found that 787 feet of the 995-feet-long buoy line set up by Texas are in Mexico.

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[–] venusenvy47@lemm.ee 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Probably the only reason Mexico hasn't already pulled it out is because they don't want to waste money that they know will never be reimbursed to them.

Maybe the US will take it down and bill Texas themselves.

[–] parrot-party@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Removing it has to be cheaper than installing it. Bleed Abbott if he wants to play this game.

[–] zackwithak@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Depends how much cheaper I guess. Texas is about 70% richer than Mexico (by GDP)

[–] redtea@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I'm sure there are some people in that area who would do it for free if they had the tools.