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

    07/17/2023 5:41:02 PM PDT · by Responsibility2nd · 34 replies
    San Antonio Express News ^ | 07/17/2023 | Benjamin Wermund
    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...