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Human rights advocates called for federal intervention Monday after it was reported that state troopers assigned to Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s border militarization initiative have been ordered to push migrant children back into the Rio Grande and to deny water to asylum-seekers amid a life-threatening heatwave.
The exclusive reporting by Benjamin Wermund of the Houston Chronicle and the San Antonio Express-News is based on a July 3 email in which an unnamed Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) officer “discloses several previously unreported incidents” they witnessed in Eagle Pass, where Abbott “has strung miles of razor wire and deployed a wall of buoys in the Rio Grande.”
As the outlets — both owned by Hearst Newspapers — reported:1
According to the email, a pregnant woman having a miscarriage was found late last month caught in the wire, doubled over in pain. A four-year-old girl passed out from heat exhaustion after she tried to go through it and was pushed back by Texas National […]
LOL, left wing rag! The Biden Admin is evil for encouraging people to sign up with coyotes and enabling cartels to profit at the border. Joe and Dems will burn in Hell!
I am so sorry Ben you are the victim of Republican disinformation. Go to the SR archives and search on “The Great Schism Trend”. I only care about political partisanship anthropologically, as one would study a cult or a tribe. I am an experimentalist, not a politician or a philosopher. What I care about and support are things that strengthen democracy and foster wellbeing at every level in ways that can be objectively verified. As it turns out that tends to support the Democratic Party because for all their faults on those terms Democratic governance is always superior to Republican governance.
You are the one, Ben Hines, that is condemned to HELL! You are an idiot and have no place in this country and better move! Your condemnation shal come quickly! You will not know what hit you!