Officials in Kinney County are pushing Gov. Greg Abbott to take more extreme action against migrants and asylum-seekers. Via theintercept:
far-right YouTube personalities to the county like Anthony Aguero, an ally of Georgia U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, as well as outlets such as Real America’s Voice, which largely serves as a platform for Steve Bannon’s “War Room” podcast., Coe invoked an oft-used racist trope and equated Haitian migrants with disease, saying that some of them had brought chicken pox and leprosy to Texas. “What’s next?” Coe said.
Coe called Hall a “straightforward, strong Christian man.” When asked where the militia was operating, Coe said he had no idea. “He’s out and about somewhere,” he said. “As long as he’s staying on private property and not creating a ruckus, he’s free to come and go as he pleases.” Many of the roads in Brackettville are riddled with potholes or unpaved. Nearly 18% of residents live below the poverty line,
“How many of these people passing through our county are really criminals?” asked another resident. “And how many carried drugs or had a weapon? The sheriff’s never really explained it, and he’s been asked. They just make everybody afraid.” At times the rallies veer into extremist QAnon conspiracies that claim that traffickers are harvesting organs and worshipping Satan. At a rally in Kinney County last year, Mike Miller, founder of an anti-immigrantcalled Warriors for Ranchers, told residents that Hondurans had been “capturing kids and harvesting their organs.”
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