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Shell_Seas

(3,454 posts)
Wed Jul 12, 2023, 12:09 PM Jul 2023

Abbott's Plan To Drown Refugees As A Deterrent For Seeking Asylum

Governor Abbott's new motto: If I can't bus them out, I'll drown them out.

https://www.lonestarleft.com/p/abbotts-plan-to-drown-refugees-as


During the Trump administration, the orange one signed an executive order to take children away from their parents if they showed up at the border asking for asylum. The rationale behind Trump’s cruel family separation policy was that if immigrants believed they would be separated from their children if caught, they might be less likely to come to America and ask for refuge.

Under that ruthless policy, over five thousand children were taken away from their parents. And while many have been returned, hundreds were lost in the system, never to be seen or heard from again.

In the end, research showed that both family detention and family separation policies have not deterred families from coming to the United States.

Because of this policy, the saying, “cruelty is the point,” became a common phrase when speaking of GOP policy. Greg Abbott’s latest political stunt is no different.

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Abbott's Plan To Drown Refugees As A Deterrent For Seeking Asylum (Original Post) Shell_Seas Jul 2023 OP
Makes Me Want To Weep For Them Me. Jul 2023 #1
OMG! Bayard Jul 2023 #2
Exactly. Shell_Seas Jul 2023 #3
How much sea life is he killing? PlutosHeart Jul 2023 #5
The Berlin wall in reverse. FuzzyRabbit Jul 2023 #4
He doesn't Rebl2 Jul 2023 #6
Well like Gov. Douche Bag (Ducey) raising2moredems Jul 2023 #7

Bayard

(24,145 posts)
2. OMG!
Wed Jul 12, 2023, 12:46 PM
Jul 2023

"This week, Greg Abbott installed a floating wall across the Rio Grande River with netting intended to snag and drown border-crossers.
I wish I could tell you that this was just hyperbole, but in a recent Wallstreet Journal article, Greg Abbott and DPS Director Steve McGraw were quoted saying, “The hope is that the possibility of death will deter people from trying to cross the river.”

Do your thing, Justice Dept, and make it quick. This is pre-meditated murder.

FuzzyRabbit

(2,083 posts)
4. The Berlin wall in reverse.
Wed Jul 12, 2023, 01:07 PM
Jul 2023

Instead of killing them while trying to leave, Abbott wants to kill them while trying to enter.

Abbot even looks evil, like a James Bond movie villain.

raising2moredems

(706 posts)
7. Well like Gov. Douche Bag (Ducey)
Wed Jul 12, 2023, 10:01 PM
Jul 2023

Soon Texasistan taxpayers will be paying to remove the buoys. What part of immigration/border is Federal territory don't puke govs understand? Maybe there should be a Constitution test for all elected offices. Certainly would save taxpayers money.
And don't forget all these pukes fall all over themselves as to who is "more pro-life" and "christian". UGH

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