Democrats will address the crisis at the border instead of playing cruel games with people’s lives.
Instead of solving the very real crisis at the U.S. southern border, Republicans are playing cruel games and putting on a show in a cynical bid to keep the issue going until the election. Governor Abbott’s unlawful “Operation Lone Star” is a $100 million dollar disaster paid for by Texas’ taxpayers. Your money was used to deliberately sabotage efforts to handle migrants in an orderly humane way, resulting in chaos at the border.
Texan voters can see through political games and they want answers and solutions, not performative showmanship.
Facts about Operation Lone Star’s Failure, Unlawful Tactics, and Deliberate Cruelty
- Texas officials accused of creating chaos for migrants bused out of state. Source: CBS.new.com
- Arrests of U.S. citizens hundreds of miles from the border. Claiming drug busts from across the state. Changing statistics. The data that Texas leaders use to boast about Operation Lone Star raise more questions than answers. Source: Texas Tribune
- US Supreme Court rules federal agents may cut razor wire Texas installed in Rio Grande. Source: Austin-American Statesman
- Texas officials, under orders from Gov. Greg Abbott, have prevented federal officials from entering a stretch of border that includes the 47-acre city park, the site where a mother and her two children drowned when crossing the Rio Grande. Source: USA Today
Democrats will Right the Wrongs of Gov. Abbott & the Past Trump Administration*
- Fight to end systemic and structural racism in our country extends to our immigration system, including the policies at our borders and ports of entry, detention centers, and within immigration law enforcement agencies and their policies and operations.
- Rescind Trump’s fabricated “National Emergency,” which siphons funding away from our men and women in uniform to construct an unnecessary, wasteful, and ineffective wall on the southern border.
- Reinstate, expand, and streamline protections for Dreamers and the parents of American citizen children to keep families together in the communities they have long called home.
- Protect and expand the existing asylum system and other humanitarian protections. We will reverse Trump Administration policies that prevent victims of gang and domestic violence, as well as LGBTQ+ people who are unsafe in their home countries, from being eligible to apply for asylum.
*Source: DNC website, Jan. 2024
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