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In addition to providing habitat for endemic plant and animal species along the U.S. Mexico border, the islands carry historical and cultural significance. For the Carrizo Comecrudo Tribe of Texas, they are sites where sacred ceremonies and rituals have taken place.

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[–] papalonian@lemmy.world 93 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I thought the title was poorly worded but no, they are "removing" a fucking island.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 days ago

Removing the urge to rape children there.

[–] Carighan@piefed.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Americans would do anything before they take a look in the mirror, damn.

[–] papalonian@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

I wasn't sure if it was maybe meant to be:

Texas begins removing "rio grande"; island officials say [it] is used to hide and smuggle immigrants

Or something similar. Me not being familiar with the area and the whole title being capitalized made it hard for me to pick apart the proper nouns

[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 26 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Violates the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and therefore not legal, but when has that ever stopped this fucking braindead administration?

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 16 points 3 days ago

Idk, but I would support Mexico taking over Texas and renaming it Newest Mexico.

[–] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 64 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Ingenious approach to solving problems! From now on, whenever there's a bug in my code, I'll just delete it. Can't have bugs if you haven't got any code. Taps head.

[–] EditsHisComments@lemmy.world 30 points 4 days ago (1 children)

"If you have a bug in your computer code, then you need to take the computer apart and clean it." -These fucking boomers

[–] Little8Lost@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago

I mean thats literally where the term comes from. They even had a "debugger" that used a brush to get the bugs out of the relais

[–] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 44 points 4 days ago (2 children)

The state of Texas is being used to hide and smuggle migrants into the US and I hereby call on the Trump administration to secure our border by removing Texas.

[–] lauha@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

I vote for Lake Texas

[–] Bakkoda@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Both the federal gooberment and Texass stopped funding their ridiculous wall less than a month after Trump took office. 64 miles of non connected wall. Just a con.

[–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 53 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The doesn't solve the underlying issue. They should remove Texas from the border and place it somewhere in the middle of the ocean.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

There’s already a plastic island the size of Texas. Now there can be a Texas island the size of Texas.

"What is this floating pile of garbage? Is that Texas?"

[–] aarch0x40@piefed.social 53 points 4 days ago (2 children)

What an absolute waste of taxpayer dollars.

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Welcome to Texas. For other stories of wild, stupid shit, google "Texas AG sues" and autocomplete

[–] Carighan@piefed.world 2 points 3 days ago

For other stories of wild, stupid shit, google "Texas"

FTFY

[–] Typotyper@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 days ago

This is where you think tax payers dollars are being wasted.

[–] Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 38 points 4 days ago

Who thought up removing an island to distract from the Epstien Files was a good idea?

[–] ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

This is so easy

  1. Texan Independence, introduce naturalisation
  2. Sign free trade and migration deals with US and Mexico
  3. Save the islands & profit