Government watchdogs and migrant advocates called on Republican Texas Governor and confirmed xenophobe Greg Abbott to end Operation Lone Star, the state-run migrant victimization program that pays for inhumane border barriers and kidnapping runs, KTSM NBC-9 in El Paso reports.

Protestors pointed out to the $4.5 billion Abbott has allocated to kidnap migrants and send them to Democratically-run cities in a program the Republican Abbott runs to “own the libs” or to erect razor wire barriers in Mexican waters has done little to stem illegal border crossings.  The groups also pointed out the Abbott Administration is facing multiple lawsuits from individuals, groups and the federal government for its unconstitutional programs regarding the treatment of migrants.  Abbott has allocated an additional $5 billion of taxpayer money over the next two years for additional politically-motivated publicity stunts.

Held at a public park that had been closed as officials decided if the State would confiscate the land as a storage, construction and deployment site for buoy barriers on the Rio Grande, the advocates pointed to the death of at least two migrants who became entangled on the razor wire-covered buoys that Abbott ordered placed on the Mexican side of the border.  They also pointed to a more recent incident where a Texas National Guardsman fired at least one shot that wounded a civilian at a public park on the Mexican side of the border.