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.”

  • tallwookie@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    but the Rio Grande is a river. do we deny them access to the river or push them into the river? seems nonsensical at best

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      1 year ago

      We can’t deny them access to the river since Mexico owns the other shore. So they’re free to jump in, free to swim across, just not get out the other side.