The th US Circuit Court of Appeals issued a temporary stay Thursday night allowing the state of Texas to keep floating barriers in the Rio Grande . A lower court judge had ordered Texas to take down the barriers by September at its own expense . The decision puts that order on hold while the appeals court considers the case . It means that Texas does not have to start the process of removing the barriers for now . The buoys were deployed in the river as part Operation Lone Star Abbotts border security initiative . Governor Abbott announced that he was not asking for permission for the anti-immigration program under which Texas constructed the floating barrier . The judge also found Texas selfdefense argument that the barriers have been placed in the face of invasion unconvincing. The governor meanwhile has argued the buoys are intended to deter migrants from crossing into the state from Mexico . Texas meanwhile maintained it had constitutional authority to deploy the floating barriers . The Justice Department alleged that Texas and Abbott violated the federal law and sought an injunction to bar Texas from building additional barriers in US water without permission from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and sought to remove them from the river in July . The ruling comes a day after US District Judge David Ezra wrote that Texas needed permission to install the barriers as dictated by law a win for the Biden administration. The decision was a victory for the Obama administration. It has been updated with additional details. This story has been amended. s Rosa Flores and Priscilla Weisfeldt and priscilla Alvarez contributed to this report. s . to a new report. The report has been published. The article has been translated. s. s The article was published in the article. The image has been corrected. The picture has been edited
Federal appeals court says Texas’ floating barriers can remain in Rio Grande for now . Federal
