Texas This Friday he suffered a legal setback in his battle over buoys installed in the Rio Grande, on the southern border of the United States, because a federal judge rejected their request to dismiss a lawsuit brought by President Joe Biden’s government to remove the barrier.

Federal Judge David Alan Ezra rejected the Texas prosecutor’s requestKen Paxton to dismiss a legal challenge filed by the White House last July.

Texas argued it was forced to take action on its own to “protect itself” from the migrant “invasion,” blaming the Democratic federal administration for failing to secure the southern border. But The judge said he did not have the authority to do so..

“Texas is a sovereign state, not a sovereign country,” the judge wrote in his opinion, which sided with the federal government that buoys are prohibited by the US Rivers and Harbors Act.

The decision represents a victory for the Biden administration, which filed a lawsuit against Texas for installing buoys in the Eagle Pass sector last July as part of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star campaign against illegal immigration.

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However, the judge rejected the US Department of Justice’s argument that The buoys violate the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. which prohibits construction that could impede navigation on the Rio Grande.

Ezra ruled that the treaty “does not specify what measures must be taken in the event of a violation.”

Texas still has several legal options to pursue the case and even take the case to the U.S. Supreme Court. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has scheduled a hearing in the case next month. From your side Judge Ezra will hear the case again in August.

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The buoys forced the Mexican government to make several requests to the United States the barrier will be removedclaiming that most of the buoys were in Mexican territory.

The International Boundary and Water Commission, a bilateral organization, confirmed this claim in a report submitted to the Ezra Tribunal, which concluded that the vast majority of buoys are on the Mexican side. (EFE)