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Yes, it's against the law to murder people, very good.
It's supposed to get cold there this weekend Greg, maybe worry less about migrants and worry more about keeping the lights on.
Cold snap? Thanks for reminding me that I need to have the staff prepare Mr. Cruz's usual suite. He gets cranky if he has to wait too long in the executive lounge, despite free margaritas and a breathtaking view of the Carribean.
This was brilliantly written. Thank you!
The same people who say without religion we would all be murderers.
Wow, imagine PROUDLY proclaiming you would be a psychopathic murderer of people who walked over an imaginary line with absolutely no remorse, but the only thing stopping you is prison time...
This is why they're such strong supporters of violence police and incarceration - they believe society is only held together by violence because that's the only thing stopping them.
What was that thing these religious fools like to say? Thou shalt not kill?
Or is he just displaying his "Christian" pro-life values
Yeah, they need sky daddy to tell them not to do it, because they have no morals or value of their own.
Their "sky daddy" has explicitly told them not to do it. They just don't care
Translation...if Trump gets reelected , they're going to start killing
There is a reason why the feds would do that.
Because it's murder?
If one of those migrants is pregnant, though, then wouldn't a nosy neighbor in Texas get to sue them for murder, or something?
Silly rabbit. That's only when it's politically advantageous. Fascists have no problem aborting immigrants or their babies.
That's Arizona. Specifically, Maricopa County and its attention-whore sheriff.
A totally different fascist hellhole than Texas.
Different? Sure. Hardly TOTALLY different, though. The two hellholes have a lot of atrocious similarities.
Totalitarianly different.
Nice one!
Alternate headline: "Abbott: Hunting season for migrants is open."
What a sick fuck!
Remember, Republicans have "Christian" values.
~~WWJD~~ WWSWAJD What would straight white American Jesus do?
Maaaan these christofascists would HATE the real Jesus if he came back
He'd definitely free all the detained immigrants and flog the people who put them there
Texas Gov. and professional little piss baby Greg Abbott
FTFY
Ah, so the reason you don't shoot innocent people is not because it's immoral? It's because you'll get caught?
Obviously the biggest takeaway is going to be that Abbott would shoot migrants if there weren't a federal law. Further sacrificing morality for cheap political points, yes. It dehumanizes and normalizes xenophobic murder. And seeing what has happened with Trump normalizing political violence, at this point we can almost predict when a politician does this, it's going to be taken as the green light for violence by some extremist on the verge of action.
It's also one more step down the fascism spiral. Because it's implicitly a rallying cry to remove another constraint. It signals to the base that what we should be doing (if not for those meddlesome Democrats) is shooting migrants and is another endorsement of a system that allows arbitrary violence.
Prolife except when it comes to murdering people that are not white
“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 later added.
He didn't clarify that immediately, he took a while. Hmm.
Pesky democrats and their whole “charging murderers with murder” shtick.
Remember this when he talks about being "pro-life".
Because crossing the border illegally is not a capital crime? Ya think?
Feds aren’t charging them with human trafficking for the bus/flight “relocations”…
This is the best summary I could come up with:
“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,” Abbott said on “The Dana Loesch Show” last week.
Texas Democratic Party Chair Gilberto Hinojosa blasted Abbott’s remarks in a statement issued Thursday.
“The only thing stopping Greg Abbott from ordering law enforcement to shoot migrant women and children are murder charges.
Texas has installed razor wire barriers alongside its border, which the Biden administration asked the Supreme Court to weigh in on last week.
We laid down this razor wire, hundreds of miles of it that was an effective deterrent and repelled migrants from entering the state of Texas,” Abbott told host Dana Loesch.
The Justice Department already filed a lawsuit against Texas last week after warning the state not to enforce the new law.
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