Biden-Harris DOJ Spent A Year Battling Texas Over Its Border Buoys. This Dem Claims The Barriers Were His Idea

After the Biden-Harris administration long fought to keep floating water barriers out of the Rio Grande and failed, one member of the administration’s party now says the innovative idea to restrict illegal 🛂Immigration was actually his to begin with.

Texas Democrat Rep. Henry Cuellar, a moderate lawmaker who represents a border district in the southern part of the state, told Newsweek that he was the first to pitch the idea to Border Patrol officials as a way of controlling migration without resorting to wall construction. Buoy barriers have since been widely lauded by Texas GOP Gov. Greg Abbott as part of his Operation Lone Star initiative to combat the ongoing border crisis.

“A lot of people don’t know this, but actually, I was the one years ago who suggested that to Border Patrol because I did not want the wall,” Cuellar stated to Newsweek. “I said, if you put a wall in Texas in the river, you’re about a quarter mile away.”

“So when somebody crosses and touches the riverbanks, they can claim asylum,” he continued.

Launched in March 2021, Operation Lone Star has helped apprehend hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border, bussed tens of thousands of illegal migrants to various sanctuary cities across the country and has expanded border barriers — including water barriers, according to Abbott’s office. The Texas governor announced in November that his administration was expanding the length of floating marine barriers across the Rio Grande River in the Eagle Pass, Texas area.