07/18/2023
While there is much about Greg Abbott that is more hat than cattle, he has stepped up his actions to secure the border in the last month. Miles of concertina wire and barbed wire fencing have gone up and for the most part illegal aliens who approach the fencing are not being allowed in. However, the alien smugglers are developing a new tactic, deploy infants, children, and pregnant women in the water in front of the fencing, at great risk of death, to force Texas officials to cut the fencing themselves to allow in the illegal aliens to receive medical treatment.
Texas is deploying shallow watercraft to discourage this strategy by preventing illegal aliens from wading the river, but the smugglers, the Biden Regime, and the Lying Press have decided to make deaths of illegal aliens, shameless baby waving, part of their strategy to stop Governor Abbott’s policy to hold the line on the banks of the Rio Grande.
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.”
Exclusive: Texas Troopers Told To Push Children Into Rio Grande, Deny Water To Migrants, Records Say, by Benjamin Wermund, Houston Chronicle, July 17, 2023
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.
Not mentioned in the story is that the illegal aliens had the option to not illegally enter the United States. However, the Lying Press reporter, Wermund, appears to have an agenda. The Jewish resident of Washington, DC, the Washington correspondent for the Chronicle and self-admitted Texas expatriate, has written before about barbed wire on the Rio Grande, a strange story for a Washington correspondent. Wermund is also hyping the political reaction to his stories, hardly the behavior of a disinterested and responsible reporter without a political agenda.
New: @JoaquinCastrotx is urging the Biden administration to intervene: https://t.co/90fXRMdd1c
— Ben Wermund (@benwermund) July 18, 2023
If anything, these illegal aliens should be arrested for child endangerment for dragging their children across a river, when they could just obey the law or just avail themselves of the Biden CBP One App Amnesty or just present themselves at the Port-Of-Entry to get in.
Clearly this strategy of putting themselves in danger is a ploy by the Biden Regime and the open borders advocates to get some dead bodies to trumpet and force Governor Abbott to back down.
Instead, Governor Abbott should double down with air boats and other shallow watercraft to prevent the illegal aliens from getting past the international border that runs down the center of the Rio Grande.
Texas DPS Air Boats
The good news is that Governor Abbott and his troops are taking action, but clearly more is necessary and they need to prepare for attacks from the Biden Regime, likely arrest of Governor Abbott for violating the civil rights of illegal aliens.
Even better is that Texas is closing some of the gates in the wall that the U.S. Border Patrol is using to smuggle in illegal aliens as I advised.
2) Got this from a friend near the border recently: "Took a tour yesterday. Texas is actually blocking all the gates in the state fence that BP was using to let illegals in to their white tents. A few months ago DPS was helping BP get illegals to their tents …
— Ken Cuccinelli II (@KenCuccinelli) July 17, 2023
The Biden Regime has issued orders to the Border Patrol to actively cut the barbed wire fencing to “rescue” illegal aliens.
4) … BP now says if they can see the illegals at the river bank they have to respond. So DPS is supposedly in the process of erecting plywood to block their sight. It’s a step in the right direction. I think TX has done almost everything except drive them back across into Mexico"
— Ken Cuccinelli II (@KenCuccinelli) July 17, 2023
The Big Lie is that no one is being “pushed into the river,” much less a child. The illegal aliens are just being told to return to Mexico. No one can be “pushed” across a yard of concertina wire, it is just not physically possible. When the troopers us the word “pushed” they just mean refusing to let the illegal aliens in. Just another example of the press just lying for political purposes, of which Wermund is a classic example of the Lügenpresse.
What happens is that the illegal aliens are not allowed in, and standing around in the water they get discouraged and return, as Todd Bensman is reporting, which is what the Biden Regime does not want. The Biden Regime wants either dead bodies for political effect or the illegals waived in to be processed and released.
Still soaking wet Illegal immigrants just turned back to Mexico by @GregAbbott_TX ‘s Hold the Line operations tell me they’re going off to find friendlier Biden Border Patrol agents who are quickly freeing all their friends and relatives into America. pic.twitter.com/QsfdK7e4SV
— Todd Bensman (@BensmanTodd) July 16, 2023
The propaganda appears to be working on some of the Texas troopers as they have adopted the Big Lie that illegal aliens are somehow “forced” to cross the Rio Grande and thereby “forced” to endanger themselves and their children.
The DPS trooper expressed similar concerns, writing that the placement of the wire along the river “forces people to cross in other areas that are deeper and not as safe for people carrying kids and bags.“
The trooper’s email sheds new light on a series of previously reported drownings in the river during a one-week stretch earlier this month, including a mother and at least one of her two children, who federal Border Patrol agents spotted struggling to cross the Rio Grande on July 1.
The truth is that illegal aliens are a danger to themselves and their children. The illegal aliens are being manipulated by smugglers and open borders advocates; they are told to keep crossing illegally and they will be allowed in if they see a Border Patrol Agent, as Todd Bensman has also documented.
Texas will block them at river’s edge so the game now is “find the green uniforms” and get the fast pass in https://t.co/TSvEy4KglP
— Todd Bensman (@BensmanTodd) June 21, 2023
Illegal aliens forced back to Piedras Negras by Gov. Abbott’s Texas police blockade say they will now hunt for US Border Patrol agents because US Border Patrol agents let them into America. pic.twitter.com/TBMLSKX1ZZ
— Todd Bensman (@BensmanTodd) July 15, 2023
The question is what is the next step by the Biden Regime? They are encouraging dangerous behavior by illegal aliens with the clear intent of using alien deaths caused by those aliens being encouraged to “Find the Green,” then blame Governor Abbott and Texas troopers for the deaths. All deaths that could have been avoided if there were no ongoing amnesty for illegal entrants.
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