(The Center Square) – New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham recently expressed outrage over “Texas’ latest move” installing barriers in an area where they have been for nearly one year.
A KRQE News report claims Texas Army National Guard troops were erecting concertina wire fencing along the Rio Grande River near El Paso “on the riverbank that faces not Mexico, but New Mexico west of El Paso.”
A British publication reported , “Which Mexico are you? New Mexico furious after Texas installs razor wire along its border.”
Other news reports appear to have made similar claims.
Texas’ OLS barriers bordering New Mexico aren’t new. They’ve been there since October.
Soldiers have erected barriers through Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s border security mission, Operation Lone Star. The area in question is near West Paisano Drive in El Paso, Texas, extending near the Anapra, N.M., bridge, which The Center Square observed last May.
“Texas has been so successful in securing our southern border, migrants are now illegally crossing into New Mexico, and then into Texas,” Gov. Abbott’s press secretary Andrew Mahaleris told The Center Square. “To be clear, Texas began installing barriers on the border of New Mexico last October. This barrier has proven to be effective in deterring migrants who illegally crossed into the United States.”