In the revelation given Houston Chronicleemails from a Department of Public Safety (DPS) agent exposed inhuman treatment migrants in border security initiative from Gov. Greg Abbott.

According to reports to which the said source had access, the agent witnessed and described “inhumane” acts, including order to push small children and babies back to the Rio Grande and the denial of water to asylum-seekers even in extreme heat.

One of the emails recounts previously unreported incidents that suggest that in areas of the river where migrants barbed wire and buoys installed. This forces asylum seekers to cross where the water is deeper and more unpredictablethereby increasing the chances of drowning.

Houston Chronicle highlights embarrassing situations such as a pregnant woman caught in a wire during an abortiona four-year-old girl with heat exhaustion and a teenager who broke his leg trying to walk through the water around the wire.

According to the newspaper Hearst Communications, incidents and barbed wire injuries increased in recent weeks.

For example, according to an email that the US media had access to, on June 30, border officials found a group of people next to a wire fence, including a four year old girl. The minor tried to cross the barbed wire, but was pushed back soldiers “because of the orders given to them.”

“The traffic police officer wrote that the temperature was “more than 100 degrees” and that the girl fainted from exhaustion“, informs Houston Chronicles.

The incidents detailed in the agent’s emails also shed light on a series of drownings in the Rio Grande.

In another email, the agent requests policy changes to improve migrant safety, including removing wire traps and repeal of the water denial order. It says: “I think we’ve crossed the line of inhumanity.”

Department of Public Safety spokesperson Travis Considine denied in the media the existence of a policy against the provision of water migrants, but did not comment on the rest of the information contained in the email.