In a grandstanding piece of lying partisan political chicanery, Greg Abbott made lots of admissions to President Biden, overnight. Admissions against interest. Here they are in full, and a bit of the worst of them:
…Two years before Texas deployed the [razor wire] barriers, and a year before it deployed concertina wire, a United Nations agency declared that the border between the United States and Mexico [Condor notes: that is a lie — those were NOT Rio Grande crossings — most were closer to California or New Mexico, overland] is the deadliest land crossing in the world, with 728 migrant deaths recorded in 2021….
Before Texas took the action about which you now complain, hundreds of migrants drowned in the Rio Grande River trying to cross the border illegally. [Confidential note to Abbott, from Condor: if they are asylum seekers, they possess a treaty GUARANTEED right — that their crossing is LAWFUL wherever it occurs, under long settled US law (on waterways, or overland) — so his razor wire is lacerating people, solely for exercising a right guaranteed by international law.]
Before Texas took the action about which you now complain, 53 migrants who illegally crossed [see above prior note to Abbot, again] the border died in the back of an 18-wheel tractor trailer near San Antonio.
Before Texas took the action about which you now complain, thousands of Americans lost their lives to the fentanyl that pours across our border daily [Confidential to Abbott: you cannot establish that the majority, or even a portion, of the fentanyl in the US is arriving from Mexico — — let alone that it is coming in via the Rio Grande.]….
So — Abbott preposterously says his razor wire “cares about life”?! Saves… lives?!
Who is… this idiot?! [And we should note that all the assertions about law, in Abbott’s earlier 2022 letters, that appear at the end of the current one… have been ruled to be errant. That is, courts have uniformly rejected Abbott’s claims about immigration law — even in the Supreme Court. So… yes, he’s a grandstanding idiot — maiming and killing people with a clearly treaty-guaranteed right to cross, by waterway.]
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