'Where is the federal response to Greg Abbott's illegal games?' asked SawyerHackett.
Biden for continuing in modified form his notoriously xenophobic predecessor's crackdown on asylum-seekers in what amounts to a bipartisan flouting of international human rights law.the U.S. government in a diplomatic note last week that the floating barrier may violate 1944 and 1970 treaties on boundaries and water.
According to the email, a DPS boat found the mother and one of the children, who went under the water for a minute. They were pulled from the river and given medical care before being transferred to EMS, but were later declared deceased at the hospital. The second child was never found, the email said.
In a statement, Mario Carrillo, Texas-based campaigns manager for America's Voice, lamented that"my state... is now pushing small children and nursing babies back into the Rio Grande, where deployed razor wire and buoys have already increased the likelihood of drownings."
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