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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    and the state has refuted claims it violated federal law and international treaties when it set up the floating barriers without permission from the Biden administration or Mexico. (Article continues)

    That’s the clincher. States are 100% not allowed to treat internationally or make policies regarding other countries.

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      Building a fence has nothing to do with that. If Texas had setup a federal border crossing, that would be illegal. If Texas had that fence constructed in such a way that a federal border crossing were blocked off, that would be illegal. A natural land border augmented with a fence isn’t an international incident and you don’t need permission from the federal government to do that.

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        You sure as hell do when you put 80% of it outside your borders, outside US borders no less

        This kind of thing could spark a war in different circumstances - imagine the Mexican army goes to dismantle the buoys in their borders, and one of several possible groups from Texas confronts them and it leads to a skirmish

        Mexico would be entirely within their rights - it’s on their property and it’s suspected to be leading to deaths

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          Sounds like if the Sovereign Nation of Mexico is as upset about them as you are, they should go remove them.

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            But

            A natural land border augmented with a fence isn’t an international incident

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              The subject of this post is that “nearly 80%” of the border fence is in Mexico’s Sovereign border, so I don’t see the issue with them removing the trespassing part of the fence.

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                  In the sense that we are all international citizens and that any action by anyone near any border is an international “incident”, sure I guess.

                  But if you want to be honest and acknowledge that calling something an “international incident” is a pretty loaded term, then I would say absolutely not.

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                    Im not sure I understand. You don’t think forcing another nation to clean up a mess we made is enough of an international incident to be called an international incident?