Texas Can Keep Border Buoys While 5th Circuit Reviews Case (1)

Jan. 30, 2024, 3:38 PM UTCUpdated: Jan. 30, 2024, 6:48 PM UTC

Texas was granted a preliminary injunction allowing it to keep buoys in the Rio Grande as a solution to undocumented immigrants crossing into the state from Mexico.

A district court previously said that the buoys had to be removed, and a panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed. The full Fifth Circuit then granted an administrative stay pending an appeal. And in mid-January, the en banc Fifth Circuit agreed to rehear the case.

On Monday, the administrative stay was vacated, and the en banc court ordered that the state’s “opposed motion for a stay of ...

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