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Greg Abbott puts his pants on with one humiliating and degrading motion like you're shaking a pillow into a case and then he has to be rolled to one side to have everything buttoned and zipped and the

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21 minutes ago, mchookem said:

paywall... can someone with a subscription post the article?

Bookmark the site archive.is

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3 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

I’m ashamed of this state ….

1 hour ago, tchookem said:

There are plenty of "Christians" that think this is just fine.

1 hour ago, wildcat09 said:

Abbott and the GOP are pure evil. There’s really not anything more to it than that.

More reasons to leave this shitstain of a state. I'm tired of people trying to say "this is not what Texas really is, Texans are good people" when this is exactly what Texas is, because Texans are doing nothing to fucking stop this.

All these so-called Christians will get up in arms about a "woke" beer, but none of them will take a day or two to go down to the border and try to do something to save their fellow Christians that are being treated like human garbage.  These so-called "pro-life" Christians will nod their head in approval if they hear of a small child being pushed into a river, or a pregnant woman in a medical crisis being ignored, as long as that child or woman are not white or don't speak English.

 

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2 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

JFC, is it 2023 or 1923?

 

In Texas or in my liberal shithole?

Here’s the article…

 

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

WASHINGTON — 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.

The email, which the trooper sent to a superior, suggests that Texas has set “traps” of razor wire-wrapped barrels in parts of the river with high water and low visibility. And it says the wire has increased the risk of drownings by forcing migrants into deeper stretches of the river. 

The trooper called for a series of rigorous policy changes to improve safety for migrants, including removing the barrels and revoking the directive on withholding water. 

“Due to the extreme heat, the order to not give people water needs to be immediately reversed as well,” the trooper wrote, later adding: “I believe we have stepped over a line into the inhumane.”

Department of Public Safety spokesman Travis Considine did not comment on all the contents of the trooper’s email, but said there is no policy against giving water to migrants. 

Considine also provided an email from DPS Director Steven McCraw on Saturday calling for an audit to determine if more can be done to minimize the risk to migrants. McCraw wrote troopers should warn migrants not to cross the wire, redirect them to ports of entry and to closely watch for anyone who needs medical attention. 

In another email, McCraw acknowledged that there has been an increase in injuries from the wire, including seven incidents reported by Border Patrol where migrants needed “elevated medical attention” from July 4 to July 13. Those were in addition to the incidents detailed by the trooper.

“The purpose of the wire is to deter smuggling between the ports of entry and not to injure migrants,” McCraw wrote. “The smugglers care not if the migrants are injured, but we do, and we must take all necessary measures to mitigate the risk to them including injuries from trying to cross over the concertina wire, drownings and dehydration.” 

The incidents detailed in the email come as Abbott has stepped up efforts in recent weeks to physically bar migrants from entering the country through his Operation Lone Star initiative, escalating tensions between state and federal officials and drawing increased scrutiny from humanitarian groups who say the state is endangering asylum seekers. The most aggressive initiatives have been targeted at Eagle Pass.

The state has also now deployed a wall of floating buoys in the Rio Grande, which triggered complaints over the weekend from Mexico. 

Federal Border Patrol officials have issued internal warnings that the razor wire is preventing their agents from reaching at-risk migrants and increasing the risk of drownings in the Rio Grande, Hearst Newspapers reported last week. 

The DPS trooper expressed similar concerns, writing that the placement of the wire along the river “forces people to cross in other areas that are deeper and not as safe for people carrying kids and bags.”

The trooper’s email sheds new light on a series of previously reported drownings in the river during a one-week stretch earlier this month, including a mother and at least one of her two children, who federal Border Patrol agents spotted struggling to cross the Rio Grande on July 1. 

According to the email, a DPS boat found the mother and one of the children, who went under the water for a minute. They were pulled from the river and given medical care before being transferred to EMS, but were later declared deceased at the hospital. The second child was never found, the email said. 

The governor has said he is taking necessary steps to secure the border and accused federal officials of refusing to do so. 

“Texas is deploying every tool and strategy to deter and repel illegal crossings between ports of entry as President Biden’s dangerous open border policies entice migrants from over 150 countries to risk their lives entering the country illegally," said Andrew Mahaleris, Abbott’s press secretary. "President Biden has unleashed a chaos on the border that’s unsustainable, and we have a constitutional duty to respond to this unprecedented crisis.” 

The DPS trooper’s email details four incidents in just one day in which migrants were caught in the wire or injured trying to get around it. 

On June 30, troopers found a group of people along the wire, including a 4-year-old girl who tried to cross the wire and was pressed back by Texas Guard soldiers “due to the orders given to them,” the email says. The DPS trooper wrote that the temperature was “well over 100 degrees” and the girl passed out from exhaustion. 

“We provided treatment to the unresponsive patient and transferred care to EMS,” the trooper wrote. A spokesperson for the Texas National Guard did not respond to a request for comment.

In another instance, troopers found a 19-year-old woman “in obvious pain” stuck in the wire. She was cut free and given a medical assessment, which determined she was pregnant and having a miscarriage. She was then transferred to EMS.

The trooper also treated a man with a “significant laceration” in his left leg, who said he had cut it while trying to free his child who was “stuck on a trap in the water,” describing a barrel with razor wire “all over it.” And the trooper treated a 15-year-old boy who broke his right leg walking in the river because the razor wire was “laid out in a manner that it forced him into the river where it is unsafe to travel.”

In another instance, on June 25, troopers came across a group of 120 people camped out along a fence set up along the river. The group included several small children and babies who were nursing, the trooper wrote. The entire group was exhausted, hungry and tired, the trooper wrote. 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.” They called command again and expressed their concerns and were given the order to “tell them to go to Mexico and get into our vehicle and leave,” the trooper wrote. After they left, other troopers worked with Border Patrol to provide care to the migrants, the email said. 

The trooper did not respond to a request for comment Monday. His email was shared by a confidential source with knowledge of border operations. It was unclear whether the trooper received a response from the sergeant he’d messaged. 

Considine acknowledged that DPS was aware of the email and provided the additional agency emails in response. Those emails detail seven other incidents reported by federal border agents in which migrants were injured on the wires, including a child who was taken to the hospital on Thursday with cuts on his left arm, a mother and child who were taken to the hospital on Wednesday with “minor lacerations” on their “lower extremities,” and another migrant taken to San Antonio on July 4 to receive treatment for “several lacerations” that required staples.

Victor Escalon, a DPS director who oversees South Texas, wrote in an email Friday to other agency officials that troopers “may need to open the wire to aid individuals in medical distress, maintain the peace, and/or to make an arrest for criminal trespass, criminal mischief, acts of violence, or other State crimes.

“Our DPS medical unit is assigned to this operation to address medical concerns for everyone involved,” Escalon wrote. “As we enforce State law, we may need to aid those in medical distress and provide water as necessary.”

 

48 minutes ago, bolverk said:

Bookmark the site archive.is

Go to whichever news site you'd like and copy a clean url to the story you'd like to read (twitter adds a bunch of junk if you try to click through a tweet). Paste that url into the appropriate place at archive.is and hit save. It will allow you to get around the paywall to read the story.

So far over the last few months, archive.is has never let me down.

Click for the article: https://archive.is/IEtyH

 

Didn’t see this.  I’ll keep the spoilered article here though.  

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1 hour ago, mdmost said:

Said it before and I'll keep saying it, the tree should've done a lot of people a favor and finished the job. Abbott is pure fucking evil. 

The tree is nice, but if he’s in charge of a govt setting traps to kill pregnant women, some lunatic will do just fine.  For the greater good. Ban me.  

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13 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

This shit wouldn't be acceptable in war.  The Geneva Convention would prohibit it.  Why now?

Because the Geneva Convention is based on the assumption that the combative sides all see each other as humans.   Migrants are not humans, they are less than human.  Much like slaves were considered less than human, or 3/5ths even after freed.     It's one way to sleep at night, to believe deep down inside you are part of a superior race that can do whatever they want to those not of that superior race.   Goes back thousands of years.  But between Manifest Destiny, slavery and continued maltreatment of POC, 'Murica is catching up fast with their European ancestors.

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In another instance, on June 25, troopers came across a group of 120 people camped out along a fence set up along the river. The group included several small children and babies who were nursing, the trooper wrote. The entire group was exhausted, hungry and tired, the trooper wrote. The shift officer in command ordered the troopers to “push the people back into the water to go to Mexico,” the email says. 

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The trooper wrote that the troopers decided it was not the right thing to do “with the very real potential of exhausted people drowning.” They called command again and expressed their concerns and were given the order to “tell them to go to Mexico and get into our vehicle and leave,” the trooper wrote.

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After they left, other troopers worked with Border Patrol to provide care to the migrants, the email said. 

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54 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

More reasons to leave this shitstain of a state. I'm tired of people trying to say "this is not what Texas really is, Texans are good people" when this is exactly what Texas is, because Texans are doing nothing to fucking stop this.

All these so-called Christians will get up in arms about a "woke" beer, but none of them will take a day or two to go down to the border and try to do something to save their fellow Christians that are being treated like human garbage.  These so-called "pro-life" Christians will nod their head in approval if they hear of a small child being pushed into a river, or a pregnant woman in a medical crisis being ignored, as long as that child or woman are not white or don't speak English.

 


fuck that. My family has lived under all the flags. I’m digging in and fighting. I live in a deep blue district (SJL, holla !) and will continue to vote Dem 

 

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1 hour ago, tx 3 putt said:

fuck that. My family has lived under all the flags. I’m digging in and fighting. I live in a deep blue district (SJL, holla !) and will continue to vote Dem 

On the one hand, my family goes back to the 1830s in Texas (although not with Stephen F. Austin's crowd, but illegally settling in North Texas). And I think there are enough votes to flip Texas sooner rather than later.

On the other hand, the weather is getting shittier, I question what the power grid will be like come August, the Republicans are trying to make millions of Texans absolutely miserable just to make a small handful of right-wingers happy, our Lt. Governor is obsessed with what bathrooms young kids are using, our Attorney General is under indictment for years on end and even with the latest on the impeachment, he still may skate, our Governor is trying to take away power from local cities/counties (and is doing so), and our Governor is also trying to inflict pain on people in some misguided attempt to get some votes for a Presidential campaign that will go about as far as he can walk (and some of those people he's trying to please aren't even from Texas). 

I'm not keen on my kids being in this environment for the rest of their childhood, especially not when we can do it in a more pleasant climate, with lots of stuff to do.  And I'm closing in on 50 and the next 30 years (or however long I live) do not look enjoyable for me here, even if/when the Dems flip it - I think the Republicans are going to do everything they can to steal the upcoming elections as well....

10 or 20 years ago, yeah, I'll stick around and vote and do some campaigning and donating of money and time. 

But...

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Here's CNN on it: https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/18/us/texas-troopers-migrant-treatment-concerns/index.html

Nice quote from Abbott:

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“Texas is deploying every tool and strategy to deter and repel illegal crossings between ports of entry as President Biden’s dangerous open border policies entice migrants from over 150 countries to risk their lives entering the country illegally. The absence of razor wire and other deterrence strategies encourages migrants to make unsafe and illegal crossings between ports of entry, while making the job of Texas National Guard soldiers and DPS troopers more dangerous and difficult. President Biden has unleashed a chaos on the border that’s unsustainable, and we have a constitutional duty to respond to this unprecedented crisis,” the governor’s statement read.

 

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23 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

Little curious how any ‘Christian’ Republican can support this and this regime 

Because, you see, Mary and Joseph were migrants....

... no, wait, they were poor and sought shelter... that can't be right....

... ok, Jesus said love your neighbor as you love yourself. Well, I fucking hate myself, so there you go.

- American Christians, probably

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59 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

Because, you see, Mary and Joseph were migrants....

... no, wait, they were poor and sought shelter... that can't be right....

... ok, Jesus said love your neighbor as you love yourself. Well, I fucking hate myself, so there you go.

- American Christians, probably


only love a white and conservative neigbor 

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Here's CNN on it: https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/18/us/texas-troopers-migrant-treatment-concerns/index.html
Nice quote from Abbott:
“Texas is deploying every tool and strategy to deter and repel illegal crossings between ports of entry as President Biden’s dangerous open border policies entice migrants from over 150 countries to risk their lives entering the country illegally. The absence of razor wire and other deterrence strategies encourages migrants to make unsafe and illegal crossings between ports of entry, while making the job of Texas National Guard soldiers and DPS troopers more dangerous and difficult. President Biden has unleashed a chaos on the border that’s unsustainable, and we have a constitutional duty to respond to this unprecedented crisis,” the governor’s statement read.
 

Gotta hand it to the guy’s spokesperson — why stop at “deter” when you can throw in “repel” to convey the image of an insect, rodent, or other pest attacking us. Disgusting.
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2 hours ago, Cap33 said:

 

Gotta hand it to the guy’s spokesperson — why stop at “deter” when you can throw in “repel” to convey the image of an insect, rodent, or other pest attacking us. Disgusting.

Just like Hitler did, use the vermin type analogy 

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19 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

Your mom was thinking of a blue-eyed/blond-haired guy while she was banging your dad.

And so was your dad.

I walked in on my dad banging my mom when I was about 6 years old.  I must admit, she was whispering "oh God oh God", but he just said "unnngggggghhhhhhhhh".  Seemed like nonsense to me.

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Trooper: Migrants 'made in the image of God'

The trooper, a medic who made it clear in the email to his superior that he supports the aims of the initiative, listed several incidents in the Del Rio area in late June and early July during which distressed migrants, including injured children and a pregnant woman who miscarried, were not given water or proper medical care despite intense heat.

He also noted that five migrants had drowned in the river and that others were injured by the razor wire installed by the Texas operation along the Rio Grande.

"I truly believe in the mission of Operation Lone Star; I believe we have stepped over a line into the inhumane," Trooper Nicholas Wingate said in his email to a DPS sergeant. "We need to operate it correctly in the eyes of God. We need to recognize that these are people who are made in the image of God and need to be treated as such."

In a follow-up email, Trooper Brandon Tinsley corroborated the account.

"Trooper Wingate is the author of this recap, but together we discussed its contents and I fully co-sign the message," Tinsley wrote. 

In a news release Tuesday afternoon, Abbott insisted no policies have been implemented that would lead to the mistreatment of people attempting to cross without legal authorization.

https://www.caller.com/story/news/local/texas/state-bureau/2023/07/18/texas-democrats-decry-abbott-on-immigration-say-biden-must-step-up/70425987007/

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6 hours ago, nbmishoid said:

Just like Hitler did, use the vermin type analogy 

Nits grow into lice!

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"I truly believe in the mission of Operation Lone Star; I believe we have stepped over a line into the inhumane," Trooper Nicholas Wingate said in his email to a DPS sergeant. "We need to operate it correctly in the eyes of God. We need to recognize that these are people who are made in the image of God and need to be treated as such."

That Trooper just hasn't been to the right church it seems.  I'm sure plenty of Republicans are correcting his attitude on various social media platforms as we speak.

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