Day of the New World

Friday night, a woman and two children drowned in the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass, Texas along the border between the US and Mexico. US Border Patrol agents knew they were in distress but could not enter the area to rescue them: 

The reason they could not enter the area was because on Thursday, Texas governor Greg Abbott sent the Texas National Guard the the Texas Military to take control of Shelby Park, a 47-acre public park along the river. The mayor of Eagle Pass said that he was told state troops were taking full control over Shelby Park indefinitely, something he had neither wanted nor asked for. The U.S. Border Patrol were denied entry into the park to perform their duties by the Texas forces, asserting that Texas officials have the power over immigration that the Constitution gives to the federal government.  

Of course, this is all politics. Abbott and House Republicans are pushing the idea that migrants are threatening American society as a key line of attack on President Biden in the U.S. Presidential election.  Although they are insisting the issue is so important they will not agree to fund Ukraine’s resistance to Russia until it is solved, they are unwilling to participate in discussions to fund more border officers or immigration courts. Biden has asked Congress to pass new border measures since he took office, but rather than pass new laws, Republicans are insisting that an individual state, Texas, can override federal authority.

Abbott has spent more than $100 million of state tax dollars to send migrants to cities led by Democrats. These migrants have applied for asylum and are here legally waiting for a hearing. In September 2023, Texas stopped coordinating with nonprofits in those cities that prepared for migrant arrivals. 

In the middle of winter, Abbott is sending asylum seekers from Texas to Chicago and the Upper Midwest, many without coats and shoes to protect them from the cold and snow. Chicago shelters are already overfilled with migrants previously sent there, and temperatures are forecast to drop below zero this weekend. The Governor of Illinois wrote Abbott pleading for mercy for the thousands of people who are powerless to speak for themselves. "Please," he wrote, 

"while winter is threatening vulnerable people’s lives, suspend your transports and do not send more people to our state. We are asking you to help prevent additional deaths. We should be able to come together in a bipartisan fashion to urge Congress to act. But right now, we are talking about human beings and their survival. I hope we can at least agree on saving lives right now.”

With regard to immigration, Abbott has boasted, “The only thing that we’re not doing is we’re not shooting people who come across the border, because of course the Biden administration would charge us with murder.” 

Of course they would, you spineless, soulless fuck. They should charge you for murder, or accessory to murder, for that woman and two children who drowned in the Rio Grande this weekend, and they should charge you for anyone who dies from exposure or illness that you bussed to the Upper Midwest in the dead of winter, you monster.