In an interview with former Breitbart ‘News’ editor and NRA scum Dana Loesch, Texas governor Greg A-Butt said that “Texas has used every tool to control the border short of ordering officers to shoot migrants crossing over illegally, once again drawing concerns about the potential impact of his rhetoric around immigration.”
“The only thing that we're not doing is we're not shooting people who come across the border, because of course, the Biden administration would charge us with murder,” Abbott said. His comment came after Loesch asked Abbott: “But for the people who don't live in border states, explain the hierarchy and the process. Like what can be done like right up to the line, where maybe they would come and say, ‘Governor, you're breaking the law, we got to arrest you for trying to enforce the law at the border.’ Like what is the maximum amount of pressure that you as governor can implement to protect the border?” Abbott responded: “We are using every tool that can be used, from building a border wall to building these border barriers, to passing this law that I signed that led to another lawsuit by the Biden administration, where I signed a law making it illegal for somebody to enter Texas from another country. And they're subject to arrest and subject to deportation. “So, we are deploying every tool and strategy that we possibly can,” Abbott continued. “The only thing that we're not doing is we're not shooting people who come across the border, because of course, the Biden administration would charge us with murder.”
A-Butt’s disgusting, MAGAt rhetoric has come under criticism, once again, because “the day before 23 people died in a 2019 mass shooting in El Paso at the hands of a gunman who railed about a ‘Hispanic invasion’ in a document published online, Abbott’s campaign sent out a two-page fundraising mailer that spoke in alarmist terms about the need to defend the border.”
Greg Abbott’s Comments on Shooting Migrants Sparks Furious Backlash
Texas Democrats issued a statement condemning Abbott’s comments, saying the governor’s words make “abundantly clear” that Texas Republicans “have no morality or humanity.”
Texas Democratic Party chair Gilberto Hinojosa accused Abbott and Texas Republicans of considering “separating families, medieval death traps, and mass imprisonment of migrants and Texans” as the only solutions to secure the borders from undocumented migrants.
“This is the same rhetoric endorsed by domestic terrorists such as the El Paso shooter, U.S. Senator Ted Cruz and former President Donald Trump – who recently echoed Adolf Hitler by accusing immigrants of ‘poisoning the blood of our country,'” Hinojosa said, adding that this approach is dangerous for both the migrants and the state of Texas.
