A “hold-the-line” operation has created tensions with federal agents who warn it could lead to more drownings. Officers ordered to carry out the measures are raising alarms.

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    1 year ago

    That’s pretty fucking dark.

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      1 year ago

      Agreed. From a state police medic’s account:

      The reality of those tactics in one area of the border, around the small city of Eagle Pass, was detailed in an email by one state police medic, who described exhausted migrants being cut up by razor wire, a teenager breaking his leg to escape the barriers and officers being directed to withhold water from migrants struggling in the perilous heat.

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      1 year ago

      Easy for you to say from the comfort of your home. The policy is so horrific that some of the officers ordered to carry out those orders have lodged internal complaints and voiced their opposition.

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          Cruel is putting it mildly I think

          Gleyders Durant, 27, a migrant from Venezuela, peeled off bandages on his right foot to reveal several wounds. He said that as he crossed the river on Friday and stepped onto U.S. soil — his 3-year-old son on his shoulders and his wife following them — he felt a sharp pain. Blood gushed through one of his tennis shoes. “That’s when I realized that I had stepped on a stretch of wire hidden under dark waters,” he said. Panicked, he extended his arms and carried his wife over it. “It was hidden, under the water.”

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      1 year ago

      What exactly do you think these people are going to do other than work jobs no one else wants for pay no one else will accept?

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        Thats exactly what they’d do, work for less pay than Americans are willing to. We need to go after companies that hire illegal immigrabts but obviously, the government can’t seem to do that. Next best thing is to keep illegals out.

        Get rid of illegals, wages go up, in simplified terms.

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          What makes you think enough Americans would be willing to pick crops in the hot sun all day? There’s a reason we used to use slaves to do that work.

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                If they can’t pay a fair wage, they shouldn’t be in business. They’ll have to up prices.

                Would you rather prices go up a tiny bit, or continue to not pay living wages? It’s the same thing as with fast food workers and the $15 min wage.