A “hold-the-line” operation has created tensions with federal agents who warn it could lead to more drownings. Officers ordered to carry out the measures are raising alarms.

A “hold-the-line” operation has created tensions with federal agents who warn it could lead to more drownings. Officers ordered to carry out the measures are raising alarms.

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  • MicroWave@lemmy.worldOP
    123·
    1 year ago

    Easy for you to say from the comfort of your home. The policy is so horrific that some of the officers ordered to carry out those orders have lodged internal complaints and voiced their opposition.

      • MicroWave@lemmy.worldOP
        9·
        1 year ago

        Cruel is putting it mildly I think

        Gleyders Durant, 27, a migrant from Venezuela, peeled off bandages on his right foot to reveal several wounds. He said that as he crossed the river on Friday and stepped onto U.S. soil — his 3-year-old son on his shoulders and his wife following them — he felt a sharp pain. Blood gushed through one of his tennis shoes. “That’s when I realized that I had stepped on a stretch of wire hidden under dark waters,” he said. Panicked, he extended his arms and carried his wife over it. “It was hidden, under the water.”