Environmentalist decries miles of planned border buoys, new border wall

A South Texas environmentalist who studies water quality in the Rio Grande says waterborne barriers and new border wall will hurt wildlife and the river’s flow. Elsa Hull, a member of the No Border Wall Coalition, owns borderlands on the Rio Grande in San Ygnacio, in Zapata County. In the latest episode of Border Report Live, Hull discusses a recent study she participated in to inspect border buoys that the State of Texas put in 2023 in Eagle Pass and what effect they are having on the river now. Hull says last week they collected sediment and water samples from the 1,000-foot-long string of border buoys that were put by Texas’ Operation Lone Star border security initiative in the Rio Grande in Eagle Pass. They also are testing for micro plastics because the buoys are plastic and they want to know if particles are breaking apart and traveling in the river.