BY JOVANKA PALACIOS -JULY 18, 2023
“State troopers are being told to push small children and nursing babies back into Rio Grande,” according to emails from a Department of Public Safety trooper, as first reported by Hearst Newspapers.
A trooper, who participated in Gov. Greg Abbott’s border security operation, Operation Lone Star, recently unveiled disturbing revelations regarding the “inhumane” treatment of migrants at the Texas-Mexico border.
In the email, sent July 3, Trooper Nicholas Wingate, who also served as a medic for the Texas Department of Public Safety, detailed instances where troopers were instructed to push migrants back into the Rio Grande, including a four-year-old girl passed out from heat exhaustion, and witnessed distressing incidents, like a teenager who broke his leg trying to navigate the water around the wire and a pregnant woman caught in razor wire whilst having a miscarriage.
In his email, Wingate expressed concerns about migrants being injured due to razor wire deployed along the border. He emphasized the need to treat migrants as human beings deserving of dignity and respect.
“I truly believe in the mission of Operation Lone Star,” Wingate wrote. “I believe we have stepped over a line into the in humane (sic). We need to recognize that these are people who are made in the image of God and need to be treated as such.”
R&I ~ MJM
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