Texas troopers told to push children into Rio Grande, deny water to migrants, records say

[Initech]

Officers working for Gov. Greg Abbott’s border security initiative have been ordered to push small children and nursing babies back into the Rio Grande, and have been told not to give water to asylum seekers even in extreme heat, according to an email from a Department of Public Safety trooper who described the actions as “inhumane.”

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]

1. No words...

[niyad]

40. oh, there are plenty of words. Most of which would net me a visit from the suits.

[SWBTATTReg]

2. Condoning murder, eh, is the new republican meal ticket, eh?

[Fla Dem]

3. Same savages who deny a woman a lifesaving abortion.

[Kid Berwyn]

4. Abbott is a NAZI.

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]

43. You said the magic word!

They are truly Nazis.

[The Magistrate]

5. That Such Orders Are Obeyed, Sir, Is Worse Than Their Being Given

The rot has sunk deep indeed.

[LoisB]

8. Yes

[orangecrush]

14. What kind of man...

Never mind

[Turbineguy]

6. The Ukrainians must be thankful

that they don't have Abbott to contend with.

[ancianita]

7. More Americans need to know the GOP murderers want the blood of innocent people just trying to find a better life.

It shocks the conscience. But first one has to have a conscience guided by a moral compass.

[BonnieJW]

17. Exactly

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]

24. Or perhaps Sermon on the Mount?

Or have those passages been banned?

[llmart]

9. I would gladly volunteer...

to push that evil fuck's wheel chair right into the concertina wire and watch him flail away with no one saving him.

[TxGuitar]

10. 6 month old article behind a paywall

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]

12. Oh shit I didn't see the date.

[orleans]

15. here's a link to article without paywall (& as far as the date goes -- they're probably still doing it!)

no paywall:
https://archive.is/mFNjn

[keithbvadu2]

11. Trump's/Abbot's Christians are the public face of Christianity in America today.

[byronius]

13. Abbot belongs in a federal prison.

Where he’ll be treated more humanely than in Texas.

Pride in one’s inhumanity is sickness.

[tavernier]

16. They were just following orders.

I can’t even…

[ck4829]

18. Wow, suddenly they're really tough when it's not some punk with a gun

[Lunabell]

19. Pro-life my ass!

There's nothig "pro-life" about the GQP. God, they make me sick!!

[mahina]

20. They are monsters! We by allowing this to continue are part of the monstrousness.

SHAME on us, shame on them! Stop it!

[pandr32]

21. This is Vlad the Impaler kind of shit.

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]

22. The sheer cruelty of the trump party is staggering.

Of course, these are "Christians", so this is exactly what I would expect. What hateful people! Wow.

[DENVERPOPS]

42. Un-fathomable

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]

23. As I have said for years: Texas: the most fascist state

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]

25. This article is dated 7/21/23

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]

26. Since Abbot thinks Texas is an independent country

May the International Criminal Court should open a war crimes case against him

[RKP5637]

27. These sick fucks Greg Abbott, Ken Paxton, and Dan Patrick should be rounded up

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]

28. Horrific...

:banged: ..............Is Texas part of the U.S.A?.........

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]

29. So much for being a "pro-life" state

Not that it is any surprise to us here.

[Tickle]

30. We should all open our homes

and help these people. Let them feel our compassion.

I'm signing up to help a migrant family

[dchill]

31. Their humanity has ended.

They should be made bereft of rights and privileges.

[MagickMuffin]

32. This happened during the summer of 2023

It’s still shows the mind of a total uncaring lunatic we have as a governor.

Greg Abbott’s has a hole where his compassion resides.

[dlk]

33. This behavior completely belies Republican rationalizations for their antiabortion policies

Is there anything they don’t lie about?

[limbicnuminousity]

36. It's consistent with their anti-abortion policy, sorta.

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]

37. That's the quiet part they don't say out loud

The hypocrisy goes along with how they campaign and legislate.

[LiberalArkie]

34. If this was happening in some far off place like Palestine, the US would be in an uproar.

[TrumanTheTiger]

35. $10,000 reward...

...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]

38. Isn't there a federal charge to arrest these people? This is murder, pure and simple.

[Trueblue Texan]

39. Evil monsters! Pro-life, my ASS! nt

[niyad]

41. May all involved receive everything they deserve.

[Hope22]

44. Sending love and strength to those

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]

45. Bruce Springsteen needs to write a new song.

When I see crap like that, I can no longer sing "Proud to be an American"