A leaked internal Texas Department of Public Safety email obtained by the Houston Chronicle reveals horrific cruelty being deliberately inflicted on migrants on the orders of hateful and sadistic Governor Greg Abbott, who issued a directive for harsh treatment of migrants that led to Department of Public Safety personnel orders to force families with children and nursing babies back into the waters of the Rio Grande.

The cruelty doesn’t end there:  Abbott ordered troopers to withhold water from migrants even as temperatures reach record highs.  He also ordered the placement of a “buoy barrier” in the Rio Grande, turning sometimes needed flotation for swimmers into bloodying weapons.  Migrants also report being cut by razor wire at and under the water line in the river at a crossing point at Eagle Pass.

According to a “whistleblower” trooper who leaked the memo, troopers who found a group of about 120 migrants on June 25th laying exhausted and hungry along the US side of the river, but on the other side of a fence, were ordered by their commander to force the group, which included families with toddlers and infant children, back into the water.  The troopers questioned the order on humanitarian grounds, and were then told to abandon the people there with assistance or water.  Contrary to their orders, the troopers independently notified other agencies who provided assistance.

The self-declared “pro-life” Republican governor ordered the placement of razor wire along the river which has resulted in at least seven hospitalizations, including a mother and child taken for treatment after sustaining injuries to their lower extremities, because in the eyes of conservatives, better to drown in a river struggling to make a better life for yourselves in America than actually make it to shore where the drag queens will turn you trans, right, Abbott?