Texas Gov. Greg Abbott uttered a public syllable when it was revealed in 2019 that 1,000 unaccompanied migrant children had reported being abused or sexually harassed while in federal custody in their home state and elsewhere. places during the previous four years.
After all, this report came during the Trump administration.
But now Joe Biden is the president. Thus, Abbott struggled to hold a press conference on Wednesday as soon as state officials received a small number of unconfirmed abuse and neglect counseling among approximately 1,600 unaccompanied migrant children in a temporary mega-shelter in San Antonio Bexar county. He was flanked by the Texas Rangers in a Stetson hat, the facility behind him as a backdrop, as if it were a crime scene.