The Inspector General of the Texas Department of Public Safety is conducting a full investigation into a whistleblower report detailing alleged inhumane commands by ranking officials, according to DPS spokesman Travis Considine. DPS has no additional comment.
ABC News has obtained the original email from July 3 detailing some of the conditions witnessed at the U.S. southern border in Texas, as migrants and asylum seekers attempt to cross into the country. The allegations were originally reported by the Houston Chronicle.
Amid scorching heat and treacherous conditions, officers at the border assigned to Texas' Operation Lone Star have been told to push back exhausted and hungry groups of people, some of whom have been injured, including small children, nursing infants and even a pregnant and miscarrying young woman, according to an email from a DPS trooper/medic blowing the whistle on conditions they have seen.
The email was sent to a sergeant with the subject line "Weekly Event Log and Operational Concerns" in the afternoon of Monday, July 3.
Razor wire deployed by DPS along the Rio Grande is forcing people to cross in riskier sections of river -- and on a number of occasions, those attempting to cross get caught up and badly cut, according to the email.
In late June, the trooper says he and those he was patrolling with discovered a 19-year-old woman stuck in the wire and in "obvious pain," doubled over.
"She was pregnant and was having a miscarriage," the trooper said.
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