Abbott Performs For Trump
We fully stand with all those in Texas and beyond who oppose the border wall.
We also stand with all those who oppose the allyship of Abbott with Trump and the values of the insurrectionists, racists and white supremacists.
We will do whatever we can to oppose this wall and this performative oppression occuring in our home state and beyond.
“Texas Governor Greg Abbott is putting on a show for Trump supporters in Texas today.
In a desperate attempt to curry favor from the former president’s base in the run-up to his reelection campaign, Abbott and Donald Trump are heading to the border to spread anti-immigrant hate and fear.
Abbott is fully embracing Trump’s treacherous legacy at a great cost to our families and communities. Every one of his extreme tactics and policies will endanger the lives of our clients as well as our immigrant family members, friends and neighbors.
In response to Governor Abbott and Donald Trump’s visit to the border, Jonathan Ryan, President and CEO of RAICES, released the following statement.
“Governor Greg Abbott’s scheduled photo-op at the border with former President Trump proves that Abbott would rather spend his time demonizing and scapegoating immigrants than address his failure as a leader to protect asylum seekers or the people of Texas to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. Targeting the vulnerable is a tried and tested tactic used by people like Trump and Abbott, but Texans see through it and won’t sit idly by when immigrants are under attack.
We must push back against this budding threat and provide strong support to the community of sponsors who are the real target of this current attack by the Governor and the former president.
Much like his failed insurrection attempt last January, President Trump’s immigration policies brought death, devastation, and an insidious threat to our nation’s laws and democratic norms. Governor Abbott will embrace this treacherous legacy this week as he auditions for the role of Trump’s No. 2, even as the likes of Mike Pence and Bill Barr try desperately, in almost pitiable display, to scrub that title from their resumes.
Trump used an angry mob to attack the Capitol and marshalled police forces to assault peaceful protesters supporting Black lives. Following this example, Governor Abbott has assembled his own posse of troopers from different U.S. states to whose leaders seek to align themselves with Trump’s violent movement and form a state-sponsored paramilitary group that promises to terrorize communities across Texas.
On a day when the Texas foster care system forces children to sleep in government offices and our energy grid teeters on the edge of yet another collapse, the person elected to protect Texans will devote his time to parading in front of his new militia and promising billions in state funds for the pleasure of the ex-president and his base…”
https://www.raicestexas.org/2021/06/29/abbott-border/?ms=em20210630_launch_appeal_abbott&sourceid=1009394&emci=60954bd4-edd9-eb11-a7ad-501ac57b8fa7&emdi=9454268a-eed9-eb11-a7ad-501ac57b8fa7&ceid=147342
