{"id":1983580,"date":"2023-07-26T19:23:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T23:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/doj-asks-court-to-order-removal-of-texas-buoy-barrier-on-rio-grande\/"},"modified":"2023-07-26T19:24:48","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T23:24:48","slug":"doj-asks-court-to-order-removal-of-texas-buoy-barrier-on-rio-grande","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/doj-asks-court-to-order-removal-of-texas-buoy-barrier-on-rio-grande\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ seeks court order to remove Texas buoy barrier on Rio Grande."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdoj-asks-court-to-order-removal-of-texas-buoy-barrier-on-rio-grande%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1983580&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The Department of Justice \u200dSeeks Removal of Texas Barrier Along Rio Grande<\/h2>\n<p>The \u200cDepartment of Justice \u2064has taken <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-canvassers-rescind-their-votes-to-certify-wayne-county-michigan-results\/\" title=\"Republican Canvassers Rescind Their Votes to Certify Wayne County, Michigan, Results\">legal action<\/a> to address a contentious issue\u200d along the Rio Grande. In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-fires-back-at-doj-accuses-agency-of-creating-unprecedented-situation-over-jan-6-lawsuits\/\" title=\"Trump Fires Back at DOJ, Accuses Agency of Creating \u2018Unprecedented\u2019 Situation Over Jan. 6 Lawsuits\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/doj-investigating-spacexs-hiring-practices-after-non-u-s-citizen-alleges-discrimination\/\" title=\"DOJ Investigating SpaceX\u2019s Hiring Practices After Non-U.S. Citizen Alleges Discrimination\">court filing<\/a> submitted<\/a> to the U.S.\u2063 District Court for the Western\u200b District of Texas, the DOJ argues that the buoy barrier set\u2064 up by the state of Texas violates the\u200d Rivers and Harbors Act and must be \u200bpromptly \u200dremoved.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;This case involves \u200ca straightforward violation of the Rivers and Harbors Act (&#8216;RHA&#8217;),&#8221; the filing \u2064states.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Defendants, Governor Greg \u2063Abbott and the State of \u2062Texas &#8230; have built \u2064a large floating \u2063barrier in the middle\u200b of an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/doj-asks-court-to-order-removal-of-texas-buoy-barrier-on-rio-grande\/\" title=\"DOJ seeks court order to remove Texas buoy barrier on Rio Grande.\">international boundary river<\/a>, \u200dthe Rio Grande, \u200cwithout federal authorization. The basic facts \u200bare clear,\u200d and no\u200b further inquiry is needed\u200b for this \u200bCourt to grant the United States immediate injunctive relief in\u200c this enforcement action,&#8221; it adds.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The DOJ\u200c emphasizes \u2062that \u2063the barrier not only infringes upon the Rivers and Harbors Act but also causes &#8220;irreparable\u2062 harm&#8221; to \u2063the United States, particularly in its \u2062relations with Mexico. Removing \u200cthe barrier is seen as an expression of the U.S.&#8217;s \u2062sovereign power, which supersedes that of the states.<\/p>\n<p>The Rivers and Harbors Act, enacted in 1899, was\u200d designed to prevent\u2064 obstructions in \u2064the nation&#8217;s waterways, which were crucial for transportation and trade at the time. It mandated that any\u2062 obstructions \u2062within or along these waterways required approval from the secretary of\u200c the Army based on recommendations from\u200d the chief of engineers.<\/p>\n<p>The court filing further argues that the\u200b waterway where the\u200b barrier is situated is under the jurisdiction of federal agencies,\u2064 including Border Patrol, and that\u200b the barrier hampers\u2063 their essential operations.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the\u2062 lawsuit, Governor \u200bGreg Abbott has remained resolute, publicly informing President\u2064 Joe Biden that he is prepared to face him\u200c in court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DOJ requested a Texas court to remove a buoy barrier on the Rio Grande, citing a violation of the Rivers and Harbors Act. The court filing in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas highlighted the barrier&#8217;s infringement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1983581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1983580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1983580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1983581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1983580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1983580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1983580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}