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Texas places traps of razorwire barrels to stop migrants from crossing the Rio Grande (www.houstonchronicle.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Arotrios@kbin.social to c/news@kbin.social

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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.

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[–] SulaymanF@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How “Christian.”

[–] be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

This, but unironically.

[–] Uriel238@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

And the Coyotes will defuse the traps with a fraction of the cost.

[–] PenguinJuice@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Aren't we technically allowed to do whatever we want with our country's property? Yeah its prolly disastrous for nature, but what else are you supposed to do? Allow anyone to come in and out, including the cartels?

[–] sethw@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Generally the answer has been to invest in your neighbors and lift the third world out of poverty so they feel happy and secure where they are and so arent swarming your borders. That mentality seems to have lost momentum though, even here you struggle to even imagine it.

It's certainly not an inevitable situation to have pregnant women and children drowning in the rio grande tied up in american razor wire as border patrol watches on eating donuts in their air conditioned SUV's. It could've and can be prevented.

[–] PenguinJuice@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I don't disagree with you at all. I think there's a lot that our country can do better, but I'm not against protecting our borders from anyone in the world coming and going. I lock my doors in my house for the same reason.

[–] NYPariah@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

I'm sure there will be comments against this, but the Governor of Texas should have murder charges against him. This is one of the most vile, heinous things done against innocent people recently. Just trying to get away and live a decent life, so sickening.

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