{"id":1142744,"date":"2023-07-19T15:31:58","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T15:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=b305cb7c32517126af5fa8548f22f27b"},"modified":"2023-07-19T15:31:58","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T15:31:58","slug":"texas-state-troopers-were-reportedly-told-to-push-migrant-kids-into-rio-grande","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/07\/19\/texas-state-troopers-were-reportedly-told-to-push-migrant-kids-into-rio-grande\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas State Troopers Were Reportedly Told to Push Migrant Kids Into Rio Grande"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Human rights advocates called for federal intervention Monday after it was reported that state troopers assigned to Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott&rsquo;s border militarization initiative have been ordered to push migrant children back into the Rio Grande and to deny water to asylum-seekers amid a life-threatening heatwave. The exclusive reporting by Benjamin Wermund of the Houston Chronicle and the...<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/texas-state-troopers-were-reportedly-told-to-push-migrant-kids-into-rio-grande\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/texas-state-troopers-were-reportedly-told-to-push-migrant-kids-into-rio-grande\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Greg Abbott&#8217;s border militarization initiative is leading officers to take deadly actions against asylum seekers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1873,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[231,6478,6,1383,4,36549,4102],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142744"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1873"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1142744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1142745,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142744\/revisions\/1142745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1142744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1142744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1142744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}