{"id":2002296,"date":"2023-08-16T10:37:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T14:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hispanic-democrats-demand-investigation-into-cruel-texas-policies-separating-immigrant-families\/"},"modified":"2023-08-16T10:38:54","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T14:38:54","slug":"hispanic-democrats-demand-investigation-into-cruel-texas-policies-separating-immigrant-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hispanic-democrats-demand-investigation-into-cruel-texas-policies-separating-immigrant-families\/","title":{"rendered":"Hispanic Dems urge probe into &#8216;cruel&#8217; Texas policies splitting immigrant families."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhispanic-democrats-demand-investigation-into-cruel-texas-policies-separating-immigrant-families%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2002296&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>A Group of Hispanic Democrats Demand Investigation into &#8220;Cruel&#8221; Immigration Policies in Texas<\/h2>\n<p>A group of more than two dozen Hispanic Democrats has sent a letter to President Joe Biden, demanding an investigation into \u2064the\u200c &#8220;cruel&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-just-one-quarter-of-democrats-see-migration-as-top-priority\/\" title=\"Poll: Just One-Quarter of Democrats See Migration as Top Priority\">immigration policies implemented<\/a> in Texas under \u2062Governor Greg Abbott.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In a \u2064letter addressed on \u200bTuesday, 28 members of the Congressional Hispanic \u200cCaucus called on the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security to open an investigation into \u200bthe Texas Department of Public Safety regarding its practice of separating fathers from their \u2063family members as they seek \u2064to cross the Rio Grande section of the border. The Democrats demanded &#8220;immediate&#8221; action to halt\u200d the policy and quickly reunite \u2062immigrants with their wives and children.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;This appears to be an attempt by Governor Greg Abbott to reinvent cruel and unpopular policies of\u200c the previous Trump \u2062Administration\u2063 and is \u2063a blatant contradiction to the \u200bBiden \u2063Administration&#8217;s efforts to keep families together,&#8221; lawmakers wrote. &#8220;We urge the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to reunite these families and ensure that the families&#8217; immigration cases proceed together.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The letter comes \u200cin \u200cresponse to Operation Lone Star, a joint operation implemented \u2063by Abbott \u2062in March\u200b 2021 to increase border security and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mayorkas-is-destroying-ice-from-within-demands-end-to-mass-worksite-raids-must-focus-instead-on-exploitation-of-undocumented-workers\/\" title=\"Mayorkas Is \u2018Destroying\u2019 ICE \u2018From Within\u2019: Demands End To Mass Worksite Raids, Must Focus Instead On \u2018Exploitation\u2019 Of \u2018Undocumented Workers\u2019\">combat illegal immigration<\/a>. However, the policy has prompted\u200d criticism from \u200cseveral Democrats who say the state&#8217;s practices have &#8220;escalated to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/state-pension-funds-invest-millions-in-blacklisted-chinese-companies\/\" title=\"State pension funds invest in blacklisted Chinese companies, worth millions.\">human rights \u2064abuses<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The\u2064 group cited instances in which the Texas DPS installed buoys with\u2062 nets and wire barriers \u200balong the\u200c Rio \u2062Grande to prevent immigrants from crossing the\u200d river. As a result,\u2062 those installations have made it difficult for immigrants to cross, &#8220;forcing\u200c people to cross through deep and dangerous points in the river,&#8221;\u2064 the letter states.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers also pointed to circumstances in which Texas\u2063 officials &#8220;have been ordered&#8221; \u200dto push immigrants back into the Rio\u200d Grande while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hispanic-democrats-demand-investigation-into-cruel-texas-policies-separating-immigrant-families\/\" title=\"Hispanic Dems urge probe into 'cruel' Texas policies splitting immigrant families.\">denying immigrants drinking water<\/a> despite\u200b &#8220;the sweltering heat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Governor Abbott&#8217;s escalating political stunts are not only inhumane and unacceptable but also deadly,&#8221; the lawmakers wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The letter builds on previous efforts by Hispanic Democrats calling\u200d on U.S. Customs and Border Protection to cease cooperation with the Texas DPS. Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) made the plea\u200b during a recent visit to the border town of Eagle Pass last week.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not yet clear whether the departments will open\u2062 an investigation \u2064into the \u2063matter, and White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre sidestepped a question on whether the Biden administration\u200b would step in to respond during a press briefing on\u2064 Monday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK HERE\u200b TO READ \u200dMORE FROM \u200cTHE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It \u200cis unfortunate that [Abbott] \u200b continues to do this,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It doesn&#8217;t\u200d just put, sadly, young migrants, or migrants, at risk, but it also puts at risk \u200dthe Border \u2063Patrol who \u2064are trying to do their\u200c job, and he gets in the way of that every day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Spokespeople for the DOJ and DHS have not yet responded to a request for comment by the Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A letter from 28 Hispanic Democrats urges President Biden to investigate the &#8220;cruel&#8221; immigration policies in Texas led by Gov. Abbott. The Congressional Hispanic Caucus members addressed the letter to the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security, seeking action on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2002297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2002296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2002296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2002297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2002296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2002296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2002296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}