Abbott: ‘We’re not shooting people’ who cross the border because feds ‘would charge us with murder’
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) 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.
Accept those that come and act to integrate them into society. They come seeing a better life and reprieve from persecution, just as the immigrants from Europe through the 1700s, 1800s, and early 1900s did.
I am so for this. I would love for immigrants to come into my area and open businesses in all the empty storefronts and do all the hard work in restoring a lost economy. I don't know what conservatives are trying to protect? The long picked over bones of the 50s?
The "white race" is the lie sold by people like Tucker Carlson and his promotion of the white supremacist "Great Replacement theory." Its why Trump said immigrants are "poisoning the blood" of our country.
There's a reason they were both endorsed by David Duke in 2020.
I would say white is a color not a race, not a culture. White skin spans many different cultures and places, and anything anyone today might consider to be "white" about those places is just as likely to be steeped in brown. Africa was the cradle of all civilization after all.
That's exactly why I put it in quotes; race is a social construct that is constantly being redefined.