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Nearly 80% of Texas' floating border barrier is technically in Mexico, survey finds (www.cbsnews.com)

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A joint U.S.-Mexico topographical survey found that 787 feet of the 995-feet-long buoy line set up by Texas are in Mexico.

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[–] GlendatheGayWitch@lib.lgbt 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought that the treaty from the Spanish-American War made the Rio Grande neutral territory. Any land that appears in the middle of the river doesn't belong to either country.

Unless there have been other treaties that I didn't learn about in my history classes, the buoys technically are infringement on neutral territory.

[–] DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

America following a treaty that doesn't benefit itself...