Texas state police troopers patrolling the border with Mexico were ordered to deny water to people in over-100 degree heat and to push exhausted mothers with nursing babies into the Rio Grande, according to an email from a trooper airing his concerns to his superior. The email, which was reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, contained allegations of severe injuries to migrants by razor wire that state authorities have placed in the river. A pregnant 19-year-old was stuck in the wire, doubled over in pain and having a miscarriage, when state police found her and cut her free, the trooper wrote. The trooper wrote that state police found a man with a significant laceration to his leg after he had tried to cut his child free from what the email termed a “trap”—a barrel covered in razor wire—in the river. A 15-year-old boy broke his leg trying to evade the wire, the email said.

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