Tikiporch@lemmy.worldtopolitics @lemmy.world•Texas governor buys billboards warning migrants they'll be raped if they illegally cross border
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26 days agoI think the signs are referring to the “coyotes” who guide Mexican immigrants across the border for a fee. Often they sexually assault their clients, estimated by nonprofits to be about 60%.
It doesn’t make a lot of sense for Texas to place the signs, though, but it’s provacative and theatrical which the GOP loves.
She introduced the PEWP Act.