An email from a Texas Department of Public Safety trooper-medic working along the Texas-Mexico border is calling into question just how far efforts have gone to stop border crossings.
PUBLISHED 12:04 PM CDT Jul. 18, 2023TEXAS — An email from a Texas Department of Public Safety trooper-medic working along the Texas-Mexico border and obtained byAccording to the email from the medic to a supervisor, troopers have crossed the line into the “inhumane.
DPS troopers are stationed along the border as part of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s multibillion-dollar Operation Lone Star border enforcement program. Spectrum News on Tuesday reached out to DPS for comment and received the following reply from Travis Considine, communications director for the department:
“The purpose of the wire is to deter smuggling between the ports of entry and not to injure migrants. Crossing through the concertina wire without protective gear is no doubt likely to result in an injury,” McCraw wrote. “This is self evident, but we need to ensure that migrants are reminded of this by signage and continued verbal warnings perhaps using LRADs.”
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