Texas border agents allegedly laid the wire traps that ensnared a pregnant 19-year-old woman, as part of Greg Abbott's plan to keep migrants out. - eviltoast

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

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    1 year ago

    Not often you see someone defending deadly boobie traps because of, why, again? A made up line on a piece of paper signed off on by dead people?

    Or are you just a comma fucker who lives to obey the law?

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      If he lived to obey the law he should look up Katko v. Briney. The case is notable for the proposition that, although a landowner has no duty to make his property safe for trespassers, he may not set deadly traps against them.

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        Yea, fortunately barbwire IS NOT a booby trap and Katko v Briney wasn’t talking about barbwire.

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          It’s razor wire, not barbwire. It caused life-threatening injuries (in one case caused a miscarriage - isn’t abortion murder, according to many folks?) and was deliberately placed in spots where it wouldn’t be seen.

          It’s a booby trap. It doesn’t have to literally be a shotgun set up in exactly the same way as Katko v Briney for it to count as one.