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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    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?

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                    There’s a reason the government started calling unidentified flying objects “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena”.

                    Would that definitely be an occurrence between two countries? Yes.

                    Would that be an “international incident”? Maybe.

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                    A friend of mine has land up in vermont that borders canada. Directly behind his property line is Canada. If I take a beer can and throw it into Canada, is that an “international incident”?

                    Is the collapsing fence that quite possibly goes into the Canadian border illegal? Is it an “international incident?”