Digital subscribers can listen to this article. Subscribe today for unlimited access to Texas Monthly. Already a subscriber? Log in. By the time I get to Shelby Park at 9 a.m. on the Fourth of July, it’s already hot, and all I see is orange. There’s so much orange that I’m not even sure where the river is, though context clues would suggest it’s behind the row of shipping containers crowned with concertina wire. A bit closer and I realize that the field of orange is a field of buoys, each about the height of a person and at least twice as long. They’ve been placed here by a company called Gibraltar in service of a floating border wall hundreds of miles long that has been…The post In Eagle Pass, I Floated the River While I Still Could appeared first on Texas Monthly.
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