Department of Public Safety troopers working in Eagle Pass, Texas are allegedly being asked to do inhumane things to stop people from crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.
According to a report from the Houston Chronicle, a trooper from the department has turned whistleblower, calling out his superior earlier this month in an email sent to the newspaper.
The trooper says he and his colleagues were given direct orders to "push the people back into the water to go to Mexico," while also being ordered to prevent the migrants from getting drinking water. These people include, the Chronicle writes, "small children and nursing babies."
“Due to the extreme heat, the order to not give people water needs to be immediately reversed as well,” the trooper wrote. They added, “I believe we have stepped over a line into the inhumane.”
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The whistleblower works near Eagle Pass, where the state has strung miles of razor wire in an effort to prevent people from crossing the Rio Grande.
Steven McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, responded to the allegations, telling the Houston Chronicle that troopers are taught to "warn migrants not...
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