Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ® said shooting people who cross the border is the only tool the state is not using to deter migrants because the Biden administration would sue the state for “murder.”

“We are using every tool that can be used from building a border wall, to building these border barriers, to passing this law that I signed that led to another lawsuit by the Biden administration where I signed a law making it illegal for somebody to enter Texas from another country,” Abbott said on “The Dana Loesch Show” last week.

“The only thing that we’re not doing is we’re not shooting people who come across the border, because of course the Biden administration would charge us with murder,” Abbott later added.

Texas Democratic Party Chair Gilberto Hinojosa blasted Abbott’s remarks in a statement issued Thursday.

“The only thing stopping Greg Abbott from ordering law enforcement to shoot migrant women and children are murder charges. Time and time again, Greg Abbott and Texas Republicans have made it abundantly clear they have no morality or humanity,” Hinojosa said in a lengthy statement.

  • Rapidcreek@lemmy.world
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    International law too. They have the right to seek amnesty. You murder them and there will nowhere to hide.

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      Why would someone seeking amnesty cross the border at a random spot, rather than an official border crossing where they could tell the workers they are seeking amnesty?

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        Maybe because at these spots there are many people that only don’t shoot them becazse they would be charged by the feds if they did.

        Im not sure you would trust them to treat you fairly if you sought amnesty.

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      9 months ago

      Start tracking the number of migrants leaving the country, for starters.

      Google “circular migration,” if you want to get a full grasp of what’s actually happening at the border and what the politicians don’t want you to know.

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    9 months ago

    Alternate headline: “Abbott: Hunting season for migrants is open.”

    What a sick fuck!