The only thing keeping Greg Abbott from shooting immigrants

So some updates on the drowned migrants - DPS is claiming that the timeline shows the migrants were already dead by the time BP alerted them. They're trying to claim that Democrats and the media are lying about the whole thing.

But here's the deal - the Rio Grande is not particularly wide in that spot. That's one of the reasons it's a popular crossing. If DPS had been doing their job, they would have seen the migrants struggling in the water before they drowned. At night, they use spotlights to observe and track anyone trying to cross. They prevented BP from doing that job by blocking access to the river for 2.5 miles around there. No one on our side of the river was in a position to see the struggling swimmers except DPS.

So whether anyone actually saw the drowning or not, we will likely never know. But it seems to me that if they didn't see, they weren't doing a very good job of monitoring the area. And if they did see and failed to render aid, they're exactly the monsters they're being made out to be.

The fact that DPS insists on operating in complete privacy and secrecy in that area should be all the indication anyone needs that something bad is going on. They claim to have excluded BP because BP agents were cutting the concertina wire rather than forcing migrants to climb through it. So is DPS making them climb through it or jump back in the river? There is no transparency here. No way to know if laws are being followed or humanitarian aid being rendered.

I do, too, but it's not like he would have been able to do anything. The lege is so heavily gerrymandered to the right that a Democratic governor would have very little power to get his agenda passed. At least we wouldn't have had this ridiculous political stunt at the border, though. That would be something.