Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has told a right-wing radio host that there’s only one tool the state isn’t using to stop migrants from crossing the border into Texas: gun violence, because it would prompt a response from the pesky federal government.

“The only thing that we are not doing is we’re not shooting people who come across the border—because, of course, the Biden administration would charge us with murder,” the Republican governor told former NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch on her radio show last week.

  • rdyoung@lemmy.world
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    10か月前

    Have an upvote. To expand on this, all of Texas doesn’t represent Texas or the USA. There is a non zero chance of Texas flipping blue in the next decade or so.