On Monday, the Texas Military Department confirmed that a member of the Texas Army National Guard had discharged his weapon over the weekend during a border-related incident and had struck a person on the Mexican side of the Bridge of the Americas. Could you talk about the situation along the border now, especially with all the high-profile actions of your governor there, Governor Abbott?
REP. GREG CASAR: Governor Abbott continues to pull dangerous stunts that have gotten innocent people killed in the river and on the border. I want to be really clear: What he’s doing is diverting millions and billions of dollars away from Texas schools, away from healthcare for pregnant moms here in Texas. He is moving those dollars towards a horrible political stunt on the border. He’s making it try to be as broken as possible, basically, for the Fox News cameras, risking the lives of people, violating people’s basic rights, all to try to create a crisis rather than set up and support a legal, orderly and safe system for people who are fleeing for their lives and fleeing from disaster.
And this latest news is an example of that, where these National Guardsmen are supposed to be providing, supposedly, some level of logistical support, but instead there
— source democracynow.org | Aug 30, 2023