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Abbott: ‘We’re not shooting people’ who cross the border because feds ‘would charge us with murder’

thehill.com Abbott: ‘We’re not shooting people’ who cross the border because feds ‘would charge us with murder’

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) said shooting people who cross the border is the only tool the state is not using to deter migrants because the Biden administration would sue the state for “murder.” “We…

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) said shooting people who cross the border is the only tool the state is not using to deter migrants because the Biden administration would sue the state for “murder.”

“We are using every tool that can be used from building a border wall, to building these border barriers, to passing this law that I signed that led to another lawsuit by the Biden administration where I signed a law making it illegal for somebody to enter Texas from another country,” Abbott said on “The Dana Loesch Show” last week.

“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,” Abbott later added.

Texas Democratic Party Chair Gilberto Hinojosa blasted Abbott’s remarks in a statement issued Thursday.

“The only thing stopping Greg Abbott from ordering law enforcement to shoot migrant women and children are murder charges. Time and time again, Greg Abbott and Texas Republicans have made it abundantly clear they have no morality or humanity,” Hinojosa said in a lengthy statement.

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International law too. They have the right to seek amnesty. You murder them and there will nowhere to hide.
- Why would someone seeking amnesty cross the border at a random spot, rather than an official border crossing where they could tell the workers they are seeking amnesty?
  
  Per international law, they must stand on foreign ground, not a particular place or time. A few years ago I saw figures which indicated most US illegal immigrants to the US actually fly into the US and overstay their visas. They too can request amnesty at any time and anywhere in the US.
  
  Because that would actually lower your chances of receiving amnesty. And it's not like they can just go home once denied.
  
  The problem is, since Trump, we completely fucked up the process for requesting refugee status, and that's what these people are requesting, amnesty is a related, but different thing:
  https://www.usa.gov/refugee
  "Typically, to apply, you must first register with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in the country to which you have fled. UNHCR will determine if you qualify for refugee status."
  Same for requesting asylum:
  https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/refugees-and-asylum/asylum/obtaining-asylum-in-the-united-states
  "To obtain asylum through the affirmative asylum process you must be physically present in the United States. You may apply for asylum regardless of how you arrived in the United States or your current immigration status."
  In order to request asylum or refugee status, you have to be INSIDE the US, and we've been turning away potential refugees at the border:
  https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-06-20/biden-asylum-seekers-turned-down-rates
  
  Why would you want to require that for someone running for their life ?
  What good among that ?
  
  "why would you not go to the places where the people putting you in concentration camps prefer to catch you?" 🤔
  Probably much safer to try and get into New Mexico or California and THEN seek asylum than to give yourself up to the people allowed to do anything short of murdering you who don't even always abide by THAT restriction.
  
  That defeats the purpose.
  You have an absolute right under natural law to trespass onto your neighbor's property, bang on the door in the middle of the night, and ask for help. They could refuse.
  Natural law puts you under their protection while you ask, and while they decide.
  
  Maybe because at these spots there are many people that only don't shoot them becazse they would be charged by the feds if they did.
  Im not sure you would trust them to treat you fairly if you sought amnesty.
  
  Because a refugee doesn't have a fucking GPS.

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