She had to be cut out of the wire and miscarried soon after.

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    While it is indeed absolutely horrible and inhumane for everyone involved there… this is one shitty and biased article.

    It sounded like they were forced to walk into booby traps full or barbed wire or something. While in reality they took a risk and it didn’t work out.

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      I mean, there were still razor wire booby traps in the water. Whether or not they were forced to cross is irrelevant, literal death traps hidden in the water is absolutely inhumane.

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        Where in the article did you see that it was in the water?

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            It’s a dry river. But this is just a normal fence that cattlemen all over the state use to keep people out/off their ranches.

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                Right, because a booby trap is illegal so you won’t see that anywhere, but barb-wire like this, is 100% legal and used all over the state.

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                  “Booby trap” is a description of its concealedness. These are concealed, on purpose. That’s the issue.

                  Moreover, they’re not barbed wire, they’re razor wire. There’s a massive difference between barbed wire and razor wire.

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                    There is no legal distinction. Anywhere you are allowed to use barbwire you are allowed to use Razorwire ™ and both are used all over the world as passive barriers and no where are barbwire or “razorwire” considered a “booby trap.”

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                  Right, because a booby trap is illegal so you won’t see that anywhere

                  Except the Rio Grande, I suppose.

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          The trooper’s email said razor wire-wrapped barrels have been placed into the Rio Grande in areas with low visibility, leading to injuries like the woman’s.

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        Again, where did you see that they are hidden? The only image in that article is that of some guy standing in front of clearly visible barbed wire…

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          The trooper’s email said razor wire-wrapped barrels have been placed into the Rio Grande in areas with low visibility, leading to injuries like the woman’s.

          sounds non obvious to me

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          The trooper’s email said razor wire-wrapped barrels have been placed into the Rio Grande in areas with low visibility, leading to injuries like the woman’s.

          sounds non obvious to me

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          That’s a stock image the news papers ran with because they dont feel like driving out to the site of the incident.

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        You don’t know what a booby trap is. In Texas, where this happens, barbwire is a passive barrier, and not subject to booby trap laws.

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            The “hidden” claim is only by an anonymous witness reported by a bias source. Like even if the barbwire was hidden, what is the point of the article? That actually our border policy is fine, if only the barbwire fences were painted with high-vis?

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        And again. Where in the article does it say that it’s booby trapped? There’s not even an image or anything. The only image of barbed wire is one where it’s clearly visible.

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          The headline literally calls it a trap.

          And the picture is not the spot. Here is the description from the article:

          The trooper’s email said razor wire-wrapped barrels have been placed into the Rio Grande in areas with low visibility

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      What are you, fucking Jigsaw? If you place traps designed to murder people you are murdering them and the state shouldn’t be allowed to murder migrants. Do you have some other idea about what should be allowed to do with migrants? Feel free to share with the class.

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        I’m complaining about the article itself… It is clearly written in a way that you imagine the worst possible thing, but doesn’t show any hint of proof for it. Literally the only imagine of barbed wire on that site, is one where it a clearly visible high fence (stock photo).

        Also there are no other sources for this in the internet that I could quickly find. It’s just a sob story to emotionally manipulate you.

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          Don’t be a coward. Your argument wasn’t that the article was false. Your argument was that it made it sound like someone forced them into the traps. Then you, based on your own opinion, said that its sounds like the migrants took a chance that didn’t work out. That is you expressing the opinion that literal death traps is something they account for in their risk analysis and that is fair game.

          Its ok to be a coward btw. You can just edit that part out and admit it was a stupid and monstrous thing to say. It’s fine, but don’t pretend you said something else while we can read what you said.

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          It’s just a sob story to emotionally manipulate you.

          I’m seeing this line of thinking more and more. The echo chambers increase in intensity every day.

          “If you have a negative emotional reaction to a news story about your team, ignore it, it’s a liberal psyop!” - How miraculously convenient for your average psychopathic conservative. From the same people who espouse “law and order” and “Christian morality” but also “it’s not a crime if you’re not caught”.

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      What an insanely ghoulish take.
      Here I’m referring to a ghoul as being monstrous and not human because of the total lack of empathy and lack of curiosity. Two of the characteristics that most people would say are most human

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      Riight, riight… because we all know that being pregnant turns a woman into Evil Knievel.

      I think you may have some leftover shoe polish on the side of your face, Clyde.

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            No, you’re options are travel legally or suffer the consequences of trying to do so illegally. Did a border patrol agent karate kick her into the wire? What forced that human being to travel through it? Their own decisions.

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              You feel these are the appropriate consequences? Getting sliced open? Something is very broken with your mental health.

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              The consequences are arrest, jail and deportation. Not losing your baby after getting sliced open by razor wire. You sound like a horribly inhumane person.

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          You do understand that this whole fetishizing-imaginary-lines-on-a-map-thing isn’t even traditional in the US, right? It only became a thing after WW1?

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      While that website is known for terrible writing and fact checking, this isn’t one of those times.

      (To clarify the accusation: They once wrote an article complainig about Chun-Li not being included in the latest Mortal Kombat release. They ended up updating the article to clarify that they were not being ironic or making a joke. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. )