The Texas governor has used disaster declarations as the legal basis for new tactics to deter migrants from crossing into the state.
The trooper also reported numerous injuries that migrants had sustained as a result of the tactics, which he described as"inhumane."
"Texas must immediately stop intentionally endangering the lives of migrants seeking protection at the border," Sarah Mehta, senior border policy counsel at the ACLU, said in a statement.decisively ending its own collusion with Operation Lone Star, which has facilitated and encouraged Texas's expansion of a proven human and civil rights disaster.
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