As Texas deploys deadly river trap, border guards ordered to push children ‘back’ into river

The Houston Chronicle has an absolutely stunning report charging Texas state troopers with carrying out acts intended to kill or injure asylum-seekers. It comes after the Texas Department of Public Safety strung miles of razor wire along the shores of the Rio Grande and, even more controversially, floated a line of deadly razor wire-wrapped barrels in the river itself, all meant to "deter" asylum-seekers from attempting the swim.