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Texas troopers told to push children into Rio Grande, deny water to migrants, records say
(www.houstonchronicle.com)
this post was submitted on 18 Jul 2023
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"President Biden has unleashed a chaos on the border that’s unsustainable, and we have a constitutional duty to respond to this unprecedented crisis.”
…by trying to fucking kill them.
That quote is huge, it demonstrates the sheer amount of insanity these people have.
President Biden has unleashed a chaos on the border that’s unsustainable
we have a constitutional duty to respond to this unprecedented crisis.”
It's this kind of people you're all dealing with. (I was about to "we" but I got stalked after saying "we" here because I'm not American)
It's not even proto fascist, it's full on non debatably fascist
Now, imagine you live on the NORTHERN border of the US, and you still hear rhetoric like that you’ve quoted from the article from your political representatives. This is shit I see almost once a week from my US representative living on the red side of Washington State.
Never mind that a) we’re literally as far as one gets from the southern border, and b) the rural farmers out here rely on immigrants for their labor. It is truly baffling to me how this is a top 5 issue for the constituency around here.
I still want one of these idiots to explain how Biden somehow personally did this. Not to mention that during his administration more border crossers have been caught and undocumented people deported than the previous admin ever did.
Then again the previous admin just liked keeping people in cages and giving their shitbag politicians and officials tours.
It’s what Jesus would want.
basically baptism if you dont think about it too hard
Somehow I feel like “I was just following orders” is going to be a sufficient defense in this case.
So many heinous atrocities have been committed by people who were “just following orders”
It’s really disconcerting.
How very Christian of them.
Aww, c'mon. It's just a little rough housing. Boys will be boys. Why are you getting so worked up over this?
Or something like that..
Locker room abuse
Reminds me of a story from Nazi Germany where a Jewish woman was holding her baby on a train platform and the baby wouldn't stop crying. A Nazi guard came over, grabbed the baby by the feet, and slammed it against a brick wall as hard as he could. He then handed the baby back to the mother and said something like "it's quiet now."
The people that support this are just like Nazi guards.
I've reached the point that nothing Texas does even surprises me.
Weren't they threatening to secede?
I wish they'd get on with it.
Only a small group of Texans seriously talk about secession, and of course they haven't the first clue what that would actually mean for them. But, there's also the super awkward juxtaposition between wanting to secede and be an "American patriot", so those idiots can't even agree on what they actually want other than to hate minorities.
Well wanting to secede is kind of the whole basis of the USA. these "patriots" have convinced themselves they're the real Americans and everyone else is wrong, so they're trying to follow order 1776
Lost the right to that when TX surrendered after the Civil War.
yep, no states are allowed to secede anymore - if the Nation dissolves then they can find their own way or whatever
Going in and taking the state back for the union would probably be the fastest way to take care of most of the problem people... You might be on to something.
this is psychotic.
This is what happens when you make Palpatine your governor.
Really hard to understand how this is a logical thought process that can be had by an elected leader and by extension how the voting public can look at someone like that and say, "yep, that's my guy."
"elected leader". nuff said
Does anyone have a non paywalled version or the article text?
Always Disable Javascript on a news website. It stops videos and pop-ups like what you are seeing.
I’m on mobile unfortunately.
Copy the link and paste it into the website archive.ph and see if it works.
That worked, thanks so much!
Damn
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
There's a difference between water and clean drinking water.
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.
I guess there should be an aquabarrier mid river then?
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