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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
(10,053 posts)niyad
(113,581 posts)SWBTATTReg
(22,171 posts)Fla Dem
(23,765 posts)Kid Berwyn
(14,971 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
(827 posts)They are truly Nazis.
The Magistrate
(95,255 posts)The rot has sunk deep indeed.
orangecrush
(19,624 posts)Never mind
Turbineguy
(37,372 posts)that they don't have Abbott to contend with.
ancianita
(36,137 posts)It shocks the conscience. But first one has to have a conscience guided by a moral compass.
BonnieJW
(2,272 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
(225 posts)Or have those passages been banned?
llmart
(15,555 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
(4,211 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
(100,104 posts)orleans
(34,074 posts)no paywall:
https://archive.is/mFNjn
keithbvadu2
(36,937 posts)byronius
(7,401 posts)Where hell be treated more humanely than in Texas.
Pride in ones inhumanity is sickness.
tavernier
(12,406 posts)I cant even
ck4829
(35,091 posts)Lunabell
(6,111 posts)There's nothig "pro-life" about the GQP. God, they make me sick!!
mahina
(17,705 posts)SHAME on us, shame on them! Stop it!
pandr32
(11,617 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
(11,366 posts)Of course, these are "Christians", so this is exactly what I would expect. What hateful people! Wow.
DENVERPOPS
(8,845 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
(62,534 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
(3,463 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
(22,397 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
(38,448 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
(17,608 posts)Not that it is any surprise to us here.
Tickle
(2,541 posts)and help these people. Let them feel our compassion.
I'm signing up to help a migrant family
dchill
(38,546 posts)They should be made bereft of rights and privileges.
MagickMuffin
(15,958 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
(11,578 posts)Is there anything they dont lie about?
limbicnuminousity
(1,405 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
(11,578 posts)The hypocrisy goes along with how they campaign and legislate.
LiberalArkie
(15,729 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
(50,310 posts)Trueblue Texan
(2,443 posts)niyad
(113,581 posts)Hope22
(1,868 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
(5,070 posts)When I see crap like that, I can no longer sing "Proud to be an American"