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Recent reporting has showcased disturbing results from Operation Lone Star (OLS), the initiative set up by Texas Governor Greg Abbott. The initiative has been impacting asylum seekers at the Texas-Mexico Border, imposing cruel, inhumane, and deadly treatment in the execution of its official mandate “to combat the smuggling of people and drugs into Texas.”
The Houston Chronicle, and other outlets, have drawn attention back to OLS, with stories about:
1) Migrant children being pushed into the Rio Grande and other migrants being denied water,
2) The opening of a jail facility for migrant women, as arrests increase under OLS, driven by a reliance on misdemeanor and trespassing charges,
3) The apparent death of migrants due to one of the newly installed “barrier buoys”; and,
4) Reports about Texas troopers separating families.
The Biden administration must do more to prevent migrant arrests, mistreatment, and family separation occurring under OLS. Under the law, border management is the explicit and exclusive purview of the federal government. OLS would seem to test the boundaries of federal authority and, since 2022, has been subject to review and investigation for alleged civil rights violations.
We ask you to help, as a matter of solidarity and for the purpose of upholding the “inherent worth and dignity of every person” our UU faith calls us to cherish. Let us urge President Biden and his administration to do more in challenging Operation Lone Star.
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Recent reporting has showcased disturbing results from Operation Lone Star (OLS), the initiative set up by Texas Governor Greg Abbott. The initiative has been impacting asylum seekers at the Texas-Mexico Border, imposing cruel, inhumane, and deadly treatment in the execution of its official mandate “to combat the smuggling of people and drugs into Texas.”
Unitarian Universalists for Social Justice (UUSJ) has been the leader of a national UU advocacy movement in Washington, DC., and will continue our efforts, acting from:
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