‘Not acceptable’: Texas lawmaker speaks on reports of inhumane border tactics

Tony Gonzales said governor Greg Abbott is doing everything he can' at the US-Mexico border despite justice department backlash

A Texas Republican representative, Tony Gonzales, has called the current tactics used to deter migrants at the US-Mexico border not acceptable" and urged the Biden administration and Congress to focus more heavily on legal immigration.

In an interview with CBS's Face The Nation on Sunday, Gonzales, whose 23rd district in Texas includes 800 miles of the US-Mexico border, said that the border crisis has been anything but humane" and called recent reports of Texas troopers allegedly pushing small children and nursing babies back into the Rio Grande not acceptable".