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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) suggested that Congress should use a
variety of methods to limit the power of the Supreme Court.

In an appearance on CNN on Sunday, the New York Democrat argued that the Supreme
Court was compromising its own legitimacy and that she believes Congress must
act to limit its power.

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"I truly do," Ocasio-Cortez answered when asked if she believes the power of the
Supreme Court justices should be limited. "And this is not a new — this is not a
new development in history. This is part of our system of checks and balances.
The courts, if they were to proceed without any check on their power, without
any balance on their power, it would be a dangerous, authoritarian expansion of
power in the Supreme Court."



The New York Democrat then said that Congress should use every tool at its
disposal against the Supreme Court, including investigations, subpoenas, and
impeachments.

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"We have a broad level of tools to deal with misconduct, overreach, and abuse of
power, and the Supreme Court has not been receiving the adequate oversight
necessary in order to preserve their own legitimacy," Ocasio-Cortez said. "And
in the process, they themselves have been destroying the legitimacy of the
court, which is profoundly dangerous for our entire democracy."

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Gov. Greg Abbott’s latest move to secure the Texas border is threatening to
violate a treaty with Mexico and bringing condemnation from international human
rights groups for its “cruelty.”

BACKGROUND: What to know about Texas' string of buoys meant to deter Rio Grande
crossings

Within the week, Texas officials are scheduled to begin deploying a buoy barrier
in the Rio Grande River near Eagle Pass to block migrants who try to swim
across. The state already has razor wire barriers on shore throughout the area,
but Abbott said the new plan will deter people from even trying to get in the
water in the first place.



“What these buoys are going to allow us to do is to prevent people from even
getting to the border,” Abbott said when he announced the new strategy in early
June. 

But the move has consequences, threatening a 1970s treaty with Mexico that
governs the use of the river and leading to deep criticism from aid groups like
Amnesty International that warn Abbott’s move ultimately could injure or kill
people who already are fleeing horrific conditions in their home counties.

“It is a monument to cruelty,” said Amy Fischer, the director of refugee and
migrant rights at Amnesty International USA.

Border walls and buoy barriers don’t actually stop people fleeing poverty and
persecution from coming, she said. It just makes their route more dangerous as
they try to exercise their human rights to seek safety.

But none of that is slowing Abbott as he directs the Texas Department of Public
Safety to move ahead with plans to build the blockade. The first of the barriers
set to hit the water sometime next week is 1,000 feet in length and has
spherical-shaped rotating buoys. They have webbing below that also prevents
people from swimming under them. 

Despite the risk to people crossing the river, DPS Director Steven McCraw
said in early June that they are not trying to harm anyone.

“We don’t want anybody to get hurt,” McCraw said. “In fact, we want to prevent
people from drowning. And this is a proactive way.”

He said the goal is for the barriers to deter people from entering the water in
the first place.




The concept isn’t new. In 2020, President Donald Trump’s administration studied
the idea of using a floating barrier in the Rio Grande River after Greece
threatened to do the same in the Aegean Sea.



The Trump administration went so far as to seek bids for the project, but it was
never deployed. According to the Washington Post, the plan was scrapped out of
fear it would increase drownings and hinder water rescues when they are needed. 

The Department of Homeland Security did not respond to requests for comment
about that project or Abbott’s current plan. The White House also declined
comment.

McCraw said they chose Eagle Pass deliberately for the first deployment because
Maverick County has become a hotspot for trafficking. It also has become one of
the most crossed sections of the Texas border over the last year as migration
patterns have shifted.

That section of the Texas border has seen a surge of Venezuelan and Cuban
migrants that has fueled a huge jump in border encounters with federal agents.
What was once one of the least busy sectors of the entire Southern border was
suddenly reporting as many encounters in one month as they typically would see
over a two- or three-year period. Since October, border officials report over
268,000 encounters on the border — making it the second-most crossed section of
the entire border from Brownsville to San Diego.

Already, DPS and Texas National Guard have deployed miles of razor wire and
troops to block migrants from crossing in that area.

The Texas Legislature just approved $5 billion of funding for Abbott's border
security program. McCraw said the first barrier being deployed will cost less
than $1 million.

While most of the border walls in Texas are in El Paso and the Rio Grande
Valley, the area between Eagle Pass and Del Rio doesn’t have many permanent
barriers. In addition, portions of the river near Eagle Pass have tall thick
carrizo cane growing on the banks of the river, making it hard for Border Patrol
and other officials to see the entire river. 

While the razor wire and troops Abbott has sent to Eagle Pass have helped, they
say the floating barriers will further slow the flow of migrants choosing to
cross there.




TREATY WITH MEXICO

But deploying floating barriers may infringe on a 1970s treaty with Mexico that
manages river access. That pact sets limits on how the two countries can manage
the Rio Grande, said Stephen Mumme, a Colorado State University political
science professor who is also the author of  “Border Water: The Politics of
U.S.-Mexico Transboundary Water Management, 1945–2015.″ 



Mumme said the treaty requires any levees or barriers from El Paso to
Brownsville to be signed off by both the U.S. and Mexican governments. A
spokesman for the International Boundary and Water Commission, which oversees
the treaty, said they have not heard from the Abbott administration.

The IBWC has challenged barriers built too close to the water before. When a
private group tried to continue constructing border walls on the river, they
were admonished for putting barriers too close to the water where posts could
collect debris and deflect water flow that could add to flooding during storms.

A spokeswoman for Abbott did not respond to questions about the treaty or the
IBWC.

Abbott’s plan comes as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis just visited Eagle Pass and
proposed giving border officials and the National Guard authority to use deadly
force to shoot people who try to cut through border walls and fences under the
assumption they are drug cartel operatives.

Fischer, with Amnesty International, said the dueling proposals are only
ratcheting up dangerous conditions for migrants with politicians trying to top
each other’s cruelty.

“It shows a complete disregard for the lives of people who are trying to
exercise their human rights to seek safety in the United States,” Fischer said.




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