Gov. Ron DeSantis has spent millions of dollars this year to support Texas in deterring migrants from entering the country through its border security initiative. Now, some of those efforts are coming under scrutiny amid reports that Texas officers were ordered to push small children and nursing babies back into the Rio Grande.
On July 3, a state trooper with the Texas Department of Public Safety reported actions taken as part of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star had veered into the “in humane (sic),” according to emails reviewed by the Herald/Times and first reported by the Houston Chronicle.
The state trooper, identified as Nicholas Wingate, a medic for the Texas Department of Public Safety, reported seeing a 19-year-old pregnant woman having a miscarriage after being caught in razor wire in Eagle Pass; a 4-year-old girl trying to cross the razor wire being pressed back by Texas National Guard soldiers “due to the orders given to them”; and a 15-year-old boy who broke his right leg after the wire forced him into a part of the river that was unsafe to travel.
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