MISSION, Texas (Border Report) -- Michael Garza was fishing from a public pier at Anzalduas Park on Monday, staring at five new floating buoys warning that the area is now a military zone.

The warning buoys were recently put in the water, months after the Department of Defense announced that 250 miles along the Rio Grande in the South Texas border counties of Hidalgo and Cameron were now National Defense Areas.

“It almost feels like there’s more eyes on you. There’s more patrols. There’s constantly Border Patrol and constables. Back in the day, we’d come here and it felt like a free area. But now I guess with the way things are with politics and people illegally crossing the border and in through the rivers. I feel like now we’re being affected because now it’s restricting us. Even thoug

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