Texas governor’s scathing statements about why they don’t shoot immigrants

According to the governor Greg AbbottThe reason they don’t shoot immigrants at the border in Texas is to avoid a murder charge from federal justice.

“The only thing we’re doing is shooting people crossing the border, because of course the Biden administration will accuse us of murder.”Abbott said in an interview last week on the conservative program ‘The Dana Loesch Show’.

The newspaper reported that the segment was re-aired on Loesch’s show on Thursday without comment about the shooting of migrants. Houston Chronicle. But a version of the original audio was posted on social media by Chicago-based progressive radio show ‘Heartland Signal’.

The governor, who has pursued a strict immigration policy that has clashed with the federal government, said his state is “using every tool that can be used to build these border barriers, from building a wall on the border. As long as the law unless approved ( SB4) which prohibits anyone from entering Texas from another country.

“In American history, have you ever seen a president try to prevent a state from ensuring its own security? We’ve put up this barbed wire, hundreds of miles of it, that was an effective deterrent and would not enter a state that would repel immigrants. Texas,” Abbott said. said

“And because it was so effective, Biden ordered the Border Patrol to cut it off or pick it up,” he added.

Texas Democratic Party Chairman Gilberto Hinojosa criticized Abbott’s comments in a statement issued Thursday.

Hinojosa said, “The only thing wrong with Greg Abbott ordering the shooting of immigrant women and children is the murder charges. Greg Abbott and the Texas Republicans have made it clear time and time again that they have no morals or humanity.”

The Abbott administration has repeatedly accused the Biden administration of not doing enough to control the border and is implementing increasingly restrictive measures against immigration, under the controversial Lone Star program.

The Biden administration has repeatedly clashed with the Abbott government’s actions, pointing out that powers over border and immigration matters rest exclusively at the federal level.

Abbott signed a bill last month that allows Texas law enforcement officials to arrest immigrants who enter the U.S. illegally and gives local judges the power to order immigrants deported.