Immigrant-rights activists this week said they're documenting incidents of alleged abuse under Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's Operation Lone Star border crackdown.
Activists say they now have a 'documentation tool' to record complaints from asylum seekers who say they suffered abuse by Texas Guard troops.
During an online conference call hosted by Frontera Texas Organizing Project, groups including Border Network for Human Rights said the governor's $11 million deployment of National Guard troops to deter border crossings has led to widespread civil-rights violations, Boyd said the shelters' medical staff frequently attend to migrants who have been slashed by razor wire deployed along the“They are reporting they’re being pushed into the razor wire," Boyd added."They’re also being shot with pepper balls, which embed in the skin and irritate the skin, and they’re having tear gas fired on them.
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