'We’re being policed for no reason': Texans protest Greg Abbott's Operation Lone Star scheme
Grassroots immigrant advocacy groups and civil rights organizations gathered in multiple Texas border cities over the weekend to protest Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s ongoing border scheme that has cost precious human lives and wasted billions in state taxpayer funds. Organizations and advocates gathered in El Paso, Presidio, Pharr, and Brownsville, all border regions that have been significantly impacted by the racist Operation Lone Star policy. Under the scheme, local communities have been racially profiled as Black and brown migrants have been rounded up on trespassing charges, and oftentimes jailed with no formal charges at all.
“I think a lot of people here in the valley and a lot of people affected by Operation Lone Star would agree,” Emma Guevara told CBS 4 News Rio Grande Valley. “We’re being policed for no reason.”
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