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.”

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    1 year ago

    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.

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      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.

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        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

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        yep, no states are allowed to secede anymore - if the Nation dissolves then they can find their own way or whatever

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      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.