https://youtu.be/r6hBGUIOzGw
This is a gruesome and sad account of what happened, including literal barrels covered in barbed wire or "razor wire" floating and/or in the mid depths of the rio grande river as a "detterrent" to migrants.
And here is Greg "the tree didnt finish the job" Abbott's response:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/abbott-responds-to-report-that-troopers-and-soldiers-were-ordered- to-deny-migrants-water-push-children-into-rio-grande/ar-AA1e315R
[Connect the url if you want to read the article]
Essentially "I dont know how my anti migrant, and likely supposed direct or indirect approval of this inhumane policy is being traced back to me, but let me try to throw someone else under the bus"
And sadly, this will likely work out for him.