Texas filling border barrier gaps with shipping containers

Texas is filling gaps in its U.S.-Mexico border security plan by repurposing shipping containers.

The shipping containers began being deployed in late October as barriers along portions of the U.S.-Mexico border in Eagle Pass, Texas, according to officials.

“Texas Gov. Greg Abbott directed state agencies … to begin placing large storage containers end to end at low-level water crossings to physically block any illegal immigrants from entry,” Renae Eze, Abbott’s spokeswoman, said in an email to...

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