Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ® 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.
What should America do about the border?
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.
Practical answer: pour funding into immigration courts and hire a bunch more immigration judges, and scale up the pro bono legal aid.
The phenomena of mass asylum requests are driven by the 4 year wait times to get a case adjudicated. If we got that down to a couple of months, then fewer people with weak cases would attempt it.
these people dont seem to understand the migration actually helps our economy. if immigrants are successfully integrated with jobs and taxes, etc. they cause less legal problems and are a benefit to the community.
but they cant see past their racism. this is all racists all the way down. there is no border problem accept when we choose for it to be a problem.
we spend 2 Billion dollars a day to protect the planet with our ‘defense’… but we cant seem to figure out how to just let immigrants come in and get jobs that no one else wants??
Start tracking the number of migrants leaving the country, for starters.
Google “circular migration,” if you want to get a full grasp of what’s actually happening at the border and what the politicians don’t want you to know.
Yes!
These governors removed about migrants depend on them for their states’ economies.
Everyone in America does.
Like 99% of them don’t overstay their Visas or do anything illegal while they are here.
And if they did care about immigrants taking American jobs, they would crack down on the people hiring them illegally.
But they want to have a permanent underclass of workers who can’t demand a fair wage.
NOT shoot people for a start.
https://bookwyrm.social/book/116487/s/open-borders
Read this. It’s in most public libraries, either digitally or physically, if not both.
Open that removed up and make America truly great. Israel is a false idol, if their God was true then America could be Zion for all people. Instead, religious fascists allow corporations to enslave the public to make room for their own agenda. We should immediately defund Israel and put that money into the border and use it to fund asylum programs, especially for Palestineans and Ukrainians displaced by their genocidal neighbors, as atonement for our own genocidal past.