Gov. Greg Abbott announced in November that the state was moving large shipping containers to the banks of the Rio Grande near downtown El Paso — between official ports of entry — to keep out migrants [...] The Texas containers are on land managed by the International Boundary and Water Commission, the Journal noted. The binational agency enforces treaties between the nations, and evaluates various projects that could affect the Rio Grande. — HuffPost
Abbott’s double-down comes after an announcement from Arizona’s new Governor, Katie Hobbs, that they will dismantle their $80 million wall of shipping containers that were installed in the Colorado National Forest last year.
The plan also encroaches on lands managed by the International Boundary and Water Commission without a permit. This could potentially trigger a change in the flow of water in the Rio Grande floodplain that could cause catastrophic loss of life and other environmental damage, according to the agency.
Texas is adding shipping containers to the US-Mexico border in El Paso.
This is in addition to the razor wire and National Guard.
Together, the strategies are causing illegal immigration at that location to plummet.https://t.co/YPTJlkca5m
— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) December 29, 2022
El Paso's homeless shelter system is currently overwhelmed by the influx, despite the makeshift barriers. The state's spokesperson for emergency management nevertheless told reporters the containers will remain in place “as long as necessary to impede the flow of illegal immigrants into Texas communities."
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Somewhere... thousands of mediocre grad students are crying inside. Imagine all the bland thesis projects these containers could have helped!
Just unlock each one and you solve the shelter shortage along the border. There's your thesis project.
that sentence alone is better than 90% of shipping container thesis I've seen.
Way way before this shipping container craze I had 2 friends who worked at a garden center. There were 2 shipping containers stacked on top of each other. Under their bosses nose they turned the top shipping container into a smoking / growing spot. They had extension cords with lights and everything. They would lift each other up on the forklift to get in. It was fucking awesome and lasted at least a year. Two very hilarious pot heads. That’s the greatest container project I’ve
ever seen.
X, I worked in a shipping warehouse end of highschool/early uni... where all of these containers would be stored for months or years at a time. We moved a few so that there was a hang-out spot 10 or so containers deep. Took out some of the long-term storage customer furniture too. Ah, those were the days.
Only in America...
“I had always hoped that this land might become a safe and agreeable asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation they might belong.”
George Washington
I have no patience for so called “free market” Republicans who can’t understand that immigration is a self regulating phenomena- and follows supply and demand of labor like anything else. As long as you aren’t wanted for a serious crime, it should take a few hours and a couple bucks to immigrate into the us. Like a dmv trip.
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