Source: Houston Chronicle

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.

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