Border Patrol Union, Abbott’s Office Push Back on Rep. Joaquin Castro’s ‘Unhinged Diatribe’ Over Water Buoys

Democrat Congressman calls Operation Lone Star’s water barrier at the Rio Grande “barbaric.”

Illegal immigrants walk in the Rio Grande river between a floating fence and the river bank as they look for an opening on the concertina wire fence to land on U.S. soil in Eagle Pass, Texas, on July 24, 2023. Go Nakamura/Reuters

U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro has accused Gov. Greg Abbott of imposing “barbaric” efforts to stop illegal immigrants from crossing the southern border near Eagle Pass, Texas.

“Everyone needs to see what I saw in Eagle Pass today. Clothing stuck on razor wire where families got trapped. Chainsaw devices in the middle of the buoys. Land seized from citizens. Operation Lone State is barbaric — and [Gov. Greg Abbott] is making border communities collateral damage,” Mr. Castro wrote on Wednesday on social media, along with a video shot from the banks of the Rio Grande River near the Texas-Mexico border.