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Border residents say the wall is being built on long-established flood plains

WGNO 26 New Orleans

Aug 4, 2026

Residents in the South Texas town of San Ygnacio say planned construction of border wall and border buoys in the Rio Grande will violate construction restrictions in a decades-old…

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Border residents say the wall is being built on long-established flood plains

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