Texas National Guard soldier shoots migrant at border

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Editor’s note: This article has been updated with a comment from the Texas Civil Rights Project and U.S. Customs and Border Protection.The Department of Public Safety, which oversees the investigative Texas Rangers division, works side by side with the Texas Military Department on Operation Lone Star.“Governor Greg Abbott’s reckless and political decision to place our National Guard service members in situations where they have no specialized training and for which they rarely – if ever – have jurisdiction makes an already challenging situation potentially dangerous,” she said in a statement.I expect a full, thorough and transparent investigation.”Erin Thorn, a senior attorney at the Texas Civil Rights Project, said the shooting showed the need for “humane policies at the border.”“Decades of ‘tough on immigration’ policies have turned border communities into war zones, and have neither solved the issue of immigration nor improved the lives of border residents,” Thorn said in a statement.“We hope the ongoing investigation will point to the answer we’ve known all along — we need comprehensive immigration reform that welcomes people with dignity and respect, not guns and bullets.”Davis Winkie is a senior reporter covering the Army, specializing in accountability reporting, personnel issues and military justice."

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