Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has indicated that he will defy an order from the Department of Justice to remove barbed wire buoy barriers in the Rio Grande, an action that has prompted a federal lawsuit against him and other Texas officials.
“The Biden administration needs to step in and put an end to this brutality being waged by the state of Texas against human beings,” progressive activist Robert Cruickshank wrote on Twitter.
called the actions by Abbott “wasteful” and “dehumanizing,”“As a nation, we should never accept the notion that the only way to manage migration is by cruelty,” Cárdenas said, adding that Biden “should step up its condemnation of shameful GOP attacks on immigrants.”is a nonprofit news platform and we cannot publish the stories you’re reading without generous support from people like you.
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