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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTexas troopers told to push children into Rio Grande, deny water to migrants, records say
The July 3 account, reviewed by Hearst Newspapers, discloses several previously unreported incidents the trooper witnessed in Eagle Pass, where the state of Texas has strung miles of razor wire and deployed a wall of buoys in the Rio Grande.
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 Guard soldiers. A teenager broke his leg trying to navigate the water around the wire and had to be carried by his father.
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/border-trooper-migrants-wire-18205076.php
Holy shit. At what point do we say "enough is enough"? Greg Abbott, Ken Paxton, and Dan Patrick are some truly, sick, twisted, murderous, evil fucks who should be doing hard time for these atrocities. And so should their Fox News enablers (Sean Hannity, Steve Bannon, Alex Jones, etc). This is extremely cruel and inhumane.
The GOP wants blood and chaos at the border. They're preparing for an all out assault.
50 Shades Of Blue
(10,172 posts)niyad
(114,312 posts)SWBTATTReg
(22,350 posts)Fla Dem
(24,003 posts)Kid Berwyn
(15,293 posts)Evil towards nursing mothers and children, the innocents among us, should secure life imprisonment for the twisted rat.
The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence." -- Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf
BidenRocks
(830 posts)They are truly Nazis.
The Magistrate
(95,285 posts)The rot has sunk deep indeed.
orangecrush
(19,717 posts)Never mind
Turbineguy
(37,473 posts)that they don't have Abbott to contend with.
ancianita
(36,275 posts)It shocks the conscience. But first one has to have a conscience guided by a moral compass.
BonnieJW
(2,284 posts)These people need to read the poem at the base of the Statue of Liberty, welcoming to America those who are "yearning to breathe free".
All four of my grandparents came here to escape the pograms of Czarist Russia.
maspaha
(234 posts)Or have those passages been banned?
llmart
(15,583 posts)to push that evil fuck's wheel chair right into the concertina wire and watch him flail away with no one saving him.
TxGuitar
(4,238 posts)I absolutely believe Abbott is Nazi ( and that is the nicest thing I can say about him) but the article says
The shift officer in command ordered the troopers to push the people back into the water to go to Mexico, the email says. The trooper wrote that the troopers decided it was not the right thing to do with the very real potential of exhausted people drowning.Jul 21, 2023
Initech
(100,202 posts)orleans
(34,143 posts)no paywall:
https://archive.is/mFNjn
keithbvadu2
(37,203 posts)byronius
(7,421 posts)Where hell be treated more humanely than in Texas.
Pride in ones inhumanity is sickness.
tavernier
(12,462 posts)I cant even
ck4829
(35,110 posts)Lunabell
(6,156 posts)There's nothig "pro-life" about the GQP. God, they make me sick!!
mahina
(17,829 posts)SHAME on us, shame on them! Stop it!
pandr32
(11,666 posts)We are not at war with Mexico or immigrants. There is no justification for this barbaric brutality. Abbot, Paxton, and Patrick should be criminally charged.
mwb970
(11,386 posts)Of course, these are "Christians", so this is exactly what I would expect. What hateful people! Wow.
DENVERPOPS
(9,014 posts)Malignant Narcissists, Psychopathic Sadists. And it is getting more pronounced every single day........
Trust me: 2024 is going to be a year, like no other year in the entire history of the United States.......including the Civil War years.....
Katie Bar the Door..........
Javaman
(62,561 posts)In America.
All the rest are wannabes
Gop has a lock on the state via gerrymandering and general vote fuckery.
I live in Austin
Mike Niendorff
(3,473 posts)Over six months since this was reported, and still we're wasting time on sternly worded letters and court cases that he's immediately ignoring.
MDN
DBoon
(22,460 posts)May the International Criminal Court should open a war crimes case against him
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)and charges brought against them.
Greg Abbott, Ken Paxton, and Dan Patrick are some truly, sick, twisted, murderous, evil fucks who should be doing hard time for these atrocities.
Stuart G
(38,480 posts)WAIT IN THE FIRST 10 AMENDMENTS...........DOESN'T IT SAY .......NO CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT?'
ABBOT NEEDS TO PAY A STEEP PRICE FOR THIS..
RandomNumbers
(17,680 posts)Not that it is any surprise to us here.
Tickle
(2,644 posts)and help these people. Let them feel our compassion.
I'm signing up to help a migrant family
dchill
(38,680 posts)They should be made bereft of rights and privileges.
MagickMuffin
(16,026 posts)Its still shows the mind of a total uncaring lunatic we have as a governor.
Greg Abbotts has a hole where his compassion resides.
dlk
(11,652 posts)Is there anything they dont lie about?
limbicnuminousity
(1,407 posts)They're trying to preserve a white majority. Yet the anti-abortion policies have resulted in the greatest birth rate increase in black and brown households. Not that reality will get in the way.
dlk
(11,652 posts)The hypocrisy goes along with how they campaign and legislate.
LiberalArkie
(15,749 posts)TrumanTheTiger
(18 posts)...to whoever turns in the person who pushed the pregnant woman into the razor wire, causing an abortion. Oh, while you're at it, throw in Abbott, Paxton, and Patrick, and earn $40k.
Vinca
(50,359 posts)Trueblue Texan
(2,473 posts)niyad
(114,312 posts)Hope22
(1,936 posts)Who are given this immoral order. You do not have to follow the directive. Sending strength and support to those who will defy this inhumane order!🙏🏼💗💗
appleannie1
(5,086 posts)When I see crap like that, I can no longer sing "Proud to be an American"