Add your name: Call on President Biden to take action

President Biden,

Texas Governor Greg Abbott is killing migrants along the border.

Media reports reveal that his state police and Texas National Guardsmen have been ordered to “push small children and nursing babies back into the Rio Grande.” They’ve also constructed an illegal floating barrier of buoys in the river and are installing “traps” of razor wire along the shore to ensnare and drown asylum seekers. Law enforcement have “been told not to give water to asylum seekers even in extreme heat.”

Internal CBP memos reveal that these obstructions are preventing federal agents — who have a legal responsibility to process and provide aid to asylum seekers — from doing their jobs. That memo was written just days before four migrants, including an infant, drowned trying to cross near Eagle Pass, Texas.

Since then, at least two migrants have drowned and been found tangled up in the floating buoy barrier, and at least 133 migrants have been injured by the razor wire along the banks of the river. There are also documented cases of the razor traps entangling a pregnant woman who ended up miscarrying her baby, trapping and maiming young children, and breaking migrants’ limbs.

These actions violate federal law and international treaties. We call on you to enforce the law and order the removal of the deadly traps and obstructions in and along the Rio Grande. We then ask you to turn your focus to the real solution to our challenges at the border, which must include laws to create a safe, orderly, and humane immigration and asylum system.

Signed,