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Texas Absolves Public Safety Leaders of Wrongdoing After Investigating Migrant Mistreatment Claims

Investigators said some migrants were injured as they tried to push past the concertina wire installed by National Guard troopers (Credit: AFP)

TEXAS - Five months after a Texas Department of Public Safety medic told his superiors that troopers were ordered to push migrants back into the Rio Grande and deny them water, an internal DPS investigation found no systemic wrongdoing by its personnel on the Texas-Mexico border.

According to a two-page report summary, investigators with the DPS Office of Inspector General found "no reasonable cause to believe that the South Texas leadership of the department institutionally engaged in a pattern or practice of conduct that violated law or department policy."

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