And that’s what he’s done for the last several years. And he refuses to - at every step along the way in his policy, his goal is to dehumanize people, dehumanize Latin Americans, dehumanize Hispanics. I mean, it’s very clear here that Greg Abbott has just reached an all new low. ![]() ROLAND GUTIERREZ: Well, thank you, Amy, first off. Why don’t you start off by responding to Governor Abbott’s response to the murder of the five people, including a 9-year-old boy, talking about the dead, quote, “illegal immigrants”? Senator, welcome back to Democracy Now! It’s great to have you with us. He was just at the state Capitol in Austin yesterday to join the Uvalde families who are demanding a vote on gun safety legislation. The troops will join 2,500 National Guardsmen who are already there to work with Border Patrol.įor more, we’re joined in San Antonio by Texas state Senator Roland Gutierrez, whose district includes Uvalde, the site of the school massacre less than a year ago, when 19 children and two teachers were killed, also with an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle. This comes as President Biden is sending 1,500 troops to the U.S.-Mexico border ahead of next week’s end of Title 42, which he and Trump used to block most access to asylum seekers. Five people died in my county, and that is where my heart is.ĪMY GOODMAN: When the governor, Abbott, tried to walk back his comments, he tried to take - to respond to the criticism of saying it was five dead “illegal immigrants” by saying he then thought that maybe one of them might have been legal. SHERIFF GREG CAPERS: My heart is with this 8-year-old little boy. This is San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers speaking earlier. Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott is facing backlash after he described the victims of the mass shooting as, quote, “five illegal immigrants.” On Monday, a spokesperson for Abbott walked back part of his comments, said the governor regretted if his remarks detracted from finding the shooter. Police say the victims were all from Honduras. Police say he shot the victims with his AR-15 semiautomatic rifle “execution style,” after one of the survivors, Wilson Garcia, asked him to stop firing rounds in his yard as the loud noise was keeping Garcia’s baby awake. Oropesa shot his neighbors after being asked to stop firing his rifle while a 1-month-old baby was trying to sleep inside. ![]() ![]() Francisco Oropesa was arrested Tuesday outside of Houston in a town called Cut and Shoot, inside a closet under some laundry, hiding. We end today’s show in Texas, where a tip to the FBI led police to the man suspected of shooting to death five people. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!,, The War and Peace Report.
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