Michael Karlis
Texas Nationwide Guardsmen look ahead to migrants alongside the banks of the Rio Grande close to Eagle Move.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott took to social media late Sunday to disclaim state accountability within the drowning deaths of three migrants close to a park in Eagle Move the state closed off to U.S. Customs and Border Patrol brokers.
In a tweet, Abbott alleged that the migrants had already drowned on the Mexican aspect of the Rio Grande by the point federal Border Patrol brokers requested entry to the realm occupied by Texas Nationwide Guardsmen. In his assertion, Texas’ Republican governor additionally bought in pictures at U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Laredo, and the media for publicizing the fatalities.
“Seems Rep. Cuellar (& some media) had been so desperate to level finger at Texas for drowning of migrants they forgot to get the information,” Abbott tweeted. “When [Border Patrol] requested entry to river the drownings had already occurred and [the bodies] present in [Mexico.] The actual fact is the deaths are [because] of Biden’s Open Border magnet.”
Media experiences, together with one by Texas Public Radio’s Pablo De La Rosa, have disputed Abbott’s model of occasions. Border Patrol officers instructed reporters that Texas Nationwide Guardsmen straight thwarted efforts to rescue the three migrants.
Seems @RepCuellar (& some media) had been so desperate to level finger at Texas for drowning of migrants they forgot to get the information.
When BP requested entry to river the drownings had already occurred & present in MX.
The actual fact is the deaths are b/c of Biden’s Open Border magnet. https://t.co/MAScagsUXl
— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) January 15, 2024
A lady and two kids drowned whereas making an attempt to cross the Rio Grande from Mexico into Texas on Friday. Critics, together with Cuellar and the League of United Latin American Residents (LULAC), blamed Abbott’s occupation of Eagle Move’ Shelby Park for the deaths, saying federal brokers’ incapacity to entry the realm prevented them from rescuing the trio.
Texas Nationwide Guardsmen seized Shelby Park Jan. 10 and have since prevented federal Border Patrol brokers from coming into the realm. BCP had beforehand used the park as a staging floor to detain and course of migrants coming into the U.S.
“I’m shocked that Gov. Abbott and his administration proceed a ‘go it alone’ strategy, creating insurance policies that prioritize his political pursuits and outcome within the pointless deaths of essentially the most weak whereas losing Texans’ taxpayer {dollars} and doing nothing to repair our immigration system,” LULAC Nationwide President Domingo Garcia stated in a press release.
Nonetheless, Abbott has since denied that his troops, stationed at Shelby Park as a part of his pricy border crackdown Operation Lone Star, are in charge for the drownings.
Following an inside investigation, the Texas Army Division (TMD) — the identical company charged with working Abbott’s border crackdown Operation Lone Star — decided that the accusations made by the media, Cuellar, and LULAC had been “wholly inaccurate.”
“On the time that Border Patrol requested entry, the drownings had occurred, Mexican Authorities had been recovering the our bodies, and Border Patrol expressed these information to the TMD personnel on web site,” TMD officers wrote in a Sunday press launch.
The TMD argued that by the point the Border Patrol officers discovered of the distressed migrants and requested entry to Shelby Park, the three had already drowned and that efforts to get well the our bodies had already begun on the Mexican aspect.
Nonetheless, TPR’s De La Rosa stated in a tweet on Sunday that BCP did attempt to rescue the drowning migrants and Texas Nationwide Guardsmen bought in the best way of these efforts.
“Texas Public Radio confirmed straight with CBP that the try and rescue was blocked,” De La Rosa wrote. “Congressman Cuellar tweeted greater than as soon as to make clear that he confirmed this as properly. [Texas Military Department] made completely no denial that they did so of their assertion.”
📌 The one new element within the Texas Army Division’s assertion on the three migrants who drowned close to Eagle Move is that TXMD claims they did not see the household.
It’s unhappy to see now that after such a tragedy, folks at the moment are suggesting the entire thing is a complete hoax,… pic.twitter.com/uoEsoPzbc2
— Pablo De La Rosa (@pblodlr) January 14, 2024
On Friday, the Biden White Home and the U.S. Justice Division requested the U.S. Supreme Court docket to intervene in Abbott’s occupation of Shelby Park. The excessive courtroom is anticipated to debate the request this week.
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