When Texas Gov. Greg Abbott goes on Fox News, he’s not too shy to brag about his anti-migrant policies. On Sunday, he told the conservative news channel that Texas and the U.S. was enduring an 'invasion driven by the cartels' on the southern border. 'We've turned back tens of thousands...
Since first launching Operation Lone Star, the governor has time and again ramped up border security measures that have seen the Texas National Guard and the Department of Public Safety deployed to frontier. In a press release last week, he said theAs Abbott ups the ante once again, rights groups and legal watchdogs have blasted the governor's border clampdown, the alleged civil rights infractions that come with it and his vilification of asylum seekers and other migrants.
"It has become abundantly clear that Gov. Abbott is using various tactics against migrants and asylum seekers as a publicity stunt … and that there is a real significant amount of harm that is happening," said Amy Fischer, Amnesty International's advocacy officer for the Americas. By email, Laura Peña, the legal director of the Texas Civil Rights Project's Beyond Borders Program, said Abbott's executive order last week"is outrageous and unlawful, and sets a dangerous precedent for law enforcement both at and away from our borders."
Kate Huddleston, a staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas, said"there's absolutely reason to be concerned about civil rights violations with respect to Operation Lone Star.
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