Not being White and living on the border, which is more than 90 percent of the population, became an even greater liability when Abbott and the Texas legislature passed a law to give state and local officers the power to arrest illegal immigrants.

The dynamics of economies and immigration and politics that made the border a unique culture are turning it into what amounts to a war zone.

If your answers do not satisfy the law officer, you might be driven hundreds of miles to the border and ordered to get the hell out of Texas and don’t come back, unless you want to end up in prison. You are guilty of nothing more than looking downtrodden.

"Whatever political points Abbott has scored with the Trumptocracy by relocating 50,000 immigrants to predominantly Democratically controlled cities, he has almost certainly inspired more than that number to make the trek toward Texas."

The president of Mexico was incensed. “No good person would do this,” Andrés Manuel López Obrador said at his daily news conference Thursday. “This is inhumane, and no person should be treated like this.”

"...every executive order by Greg Abbott, regarding the border with Mexico, increases the risk of an incident even more horrendous than the current humanitarian crisis on our doorstep."