EXCLUSIVE — The Trump administration will soon deploy the federal government’s first-ever floating buoy wall at the U.S.-Mexico border river with the installation of a 17-mile string of buoys in South Texas, the Washington Examiner has learned.

The construction project is scheduled to begin in the coming weeks in the Rio Grande in Texas‘s Rio Grande Valley, which has historically been the busiest area along the border for illegal crossings, according to four officials with firsthand knowledge of the plan.