Texas Gov. Greg Abbott expressed “regret” over a statement deriding five shooting victims as “illegal immigrants”—after information emerged suggesting that at least one of them was in the country legally.
A day after he went out of his way to characterize the five victims of a Friday night shooting in Texas as “illegal immigrants,” Gov. Greg Abbott issued a short statement on the matter, with a representative expressing “regret if the information was incorrect.”
Texas Democratic Party Chair Gilberto Hinojosa also issued a statement on the matter, saying, “There is no limit to the depravity of Greg Abbott and his Texas Republican cronies.” He accused Abbott of using the shooting “to fear-monger and lie about migrants and the victims’ immigration status.” The identification card appeared to prove that Diana Velazquez Alvarado, 21, had been a U.S. permanent resident since December 2021. The immigration status of the other four victims—Sonia Guzman, 25; Juliza Molina Rivera, 31; Jose Jonathan Casarez, 18; and Daniel Enrique Laso, 9—remained unclear on Monday. All five were originally from Honduras.
In his initial Sunday statement, Abbott also referred to the suspected gunman, Francisco Oropesa, as someone “who is in this country illegally” as he announced a $50,000 reward for information leading to his capture.
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