Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Warns of Migrant 'Caravans,' Brags About Installing Razor Wire Along Border
Using this anti-immigrant language stokes the flames of hatred and works to paint refugees and asylum seekers as criminals, Olivares said. He added that the kind of rhetoric deployed by Abbott and other politicians is moving white supremacists and anti-immigrant extremists to action. “It’s literally endangering people’s lives as a result,” he said.
The term “caravan” implies a planned assault on the border and is intended to scare people, said Bill Holston, executive director for the Human Rights Initiative of North Texas. But the border is already a dangerous place, brutally hot and harsh and difficult to cross. Mean-spirited tactics won’t stop people who are seeking refuge in the U.S., he argued. They’ll just wind up getting injured by the wire, or they may traverse ever-more dangerous stretches of the border., Holston noted. People may travel at night and carry water jugs, but they’ll keep trying to escape “lives that are totally untenable.”
Transgender people from El Salvador, Guatemalan farmers and others escaping widespread gang violence, prolonged droughts or civil unrest will attempt to reach the U.S. to survive, hoping to provide better lives for their families, he said. The world is seeing unprecedented levels of migration because of political turmoil and climate change. The number of refugees will likelySomehow, U.S.
“You can have a legitimate debate about how we should deal with refugees at the border,” he said. “But doubling down on cruelty is not going to serve any useful purpose other than appealing to the basest element of American politics.”, it has been defined as the free, independent voice of Dallas, and we'd like to keep it that way. With local media under siege, it's more important than ever for us to rally support behind funding our local journalism.
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