Child from Honduras is one of two people dead on or near Texas’ anti-migrant border buoys
Child from Honduras is one of two people dead on or near Texas’ anti-migrant border buoys
Gov. Greg Abbott has rebuffed demands to remove a floating barrier that Mexico and US officials warned would become a 'death trap' for migrants.
Abbott ‘has the blood of a child on his hands,’ a congresswoman said. ‘No good person would do this,’ said Mexico President López Obrador.
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What are these buoys and how are they used to deter migrants?
My understanding is that they are death traps designed to pull you under into a net and then you drown. There are warning signs on the US side but not the Mexican one.
Not sure how they work as a deterrent, maybe the goal is to kill enough people so news goes back to the migrants' countries and scares the others off the trip? Otherwise if you already made it all the way to the border I don't think you'd turn back because of them. Then again maybe the point is simply to kill migrants.
Isn't laying death traps... you know, illegal?
Not if you're a Republican with pussy Democrats as your opponent
And if this were literally the only potentially lethal hazard on these poor people's trek, it might actually work as a deterrent. But when people are fleeing for their life, through lethal hazards literally every day of the journey, only to face lethal risks after actually settling in America? What's one more risk, when the penalty is always the same...
There's also apparently barbed wire laid under some stretches.