Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday known as the victims of a mass shooting in Texas over the weekend “illegal immigrants,” drawing searing backlash for “dehumanizing” them.

Abbott introduced on his non-public and recount Twitter accounts a $50,000 reward for the particular person that extinct an AR-15 rifle to homicide 5 neighbors execution-vogue, along side a 9-year-extinct boy, in Cleveland, Texas, on Friday evening. The suspect, Francisco Oropesa, used to be at sizable Monday afternoon.

Abbott, a Republican, talked about the reward used to be for a fugitive “who is in the nation illegally and killed 5 illegal immigrants.”

The put up drew instantaneous backlash on social media from critics and a “community tag” that provides context from readers who talked about the novel tweet is misleading. The tag talked about that as a minimal one of the most victims used to be a acceptable resident of the U.S. and added their names.

The youngest sufferer used to be Daniel Enrique Laso, who officers at the origin talked about used to be 8, but NBC News confirmed used to be 9. The different four had been identified by police as Sonia Argentina Guzman, 25; Diana Velazquez Alvarado, 21; Julisa Molina Rivera, 31; and Jose Jonathan Casarez, 18.

“It’s below the honor of the governor to impugn the victims of a mass shooting about their acceptable situation,” talked about Domingo Garcia, president of the League of United Latin American Voters. “All the victims are Latino and so is the suspected gunman. It is a ways a tragedy that involves one other serial killing and a weapon for war that used to be extinct in the killing. That’s the peril, no longer the right situation of the victims.”

Maritza Wong, a volunteer with Texas Moms Demand High-tail, a neighborhood that advocates for stricter gun legal pointers, talked about: “The first assertion out of Greg Abbott’s mouth is to flip this tragedy into a canine whistle. Meanwhile our governor refuses to create the most traditional modifications to Texas gun legal pointers that can perhaps create our families safer and each day he does so he is abdicating public safety.”

Vanessa Cárdenas, government director of the immigration advocacy neighborhood The United States’s Negate, talked about in an email that “the entirely part that would merely composed matter to the Governor” is that this used to be “one other mass shooting that killed innocent folks” living in Texas.

“Disgrace on Governor Abbott for turning a horrific family and community tragedy into one other in his relentless effort to dehumanize immigrants and demonize immigration,” she talked about. “No longer entirely is it an uncouth distraction that compounds one family’s disaster, but of all folks, Greg Abbott might perhaps well merely composed realize the energy of phrases and the responsibility of his public rhetoric.”

Renae Eze, a spokeswoman for the governor, blamed the federal government an announcement Monday afternoon for providing the recount wrong knowledge about the suspect and the victims.

“We’ve got since learned that as a minimal one of the most victims might perhaps well merely bear been in the us legally,” Eze talked about. “We remorse if the determining used to be wrong and detracted from the well-known purpose of finding and fascinating the legal,” she talked about.

The place of work additionally talked about “any loss of life is a tragedy, and our hearts exit to the families who bear lost a most trendy one.”

Immigration and Customs Enforcement didn’t as we issue reply to an email Monday morning inquiring about the immigration situation of the victims.

ICE talked about a particular person by the name of Francisco Oropesa Perez-Torres, 38, a Mexican citizen, had been ordered eliminated from the U.S. on March 16, 2009, and then eliminated from the nation by ICE in Houston on March 17, 2009.

ICE talked about he re-entered the U.S. and used to be apprehended and eliminated a lot of extra times in September 2009, January 2012 and July 2016.

The company talked about Oropesa has additionally been convicted in Montgomery County, Texas, of riding while intoxicated in January 2012 and sentenced to back time in detention middle.

Texas authorities talked about all of the victims had been Honduran but didn’t delivery knowledge about whether they’re U.S. voters or acceptable residents, bear transient protected situation or visas, or are in the nation illegally. The FBI and the recount Division of Public Security didn’t reply to requests for data or data to verify the governor’s description of the victims.

The Privateness Act requires that knowledge of acceptable permanent residents be protected in opposition to unauthorized disclosure and enables for civil and legal penalties for violations.

David Leopold, The United States’s Negate’s acceptable adviser, talked about it’s miles idea to train folks are undocumented except it’s miles known that a determine has ordered them eliminated from the U.S. or they’ve volunteered to ride away. Although they’re undocumented, they’ll merely bear some develop of permission to live in the nation, Leopold talked about.

The shooting is one of a string that bear befell below Abbott, along side the college massacre in Uvalde on Might perhaps well merely 24, in which 19 classic faculty kids and two lecturers had been killed.

Fogeys in that shooting bear been pleading with Texas legislators to ship to a bill to the governor for his signature that can perhaps elevate the age for purchasing definite assault-vogue rifles from 18 to 21, with some exceptions. Regulation enforcement officers who had been at Uvalde bear talked about that the weapon’s firepower used to be fragment of the motive there used to be a 77-minute lengthen in going into the college to live the shooter.

Abbott has invested higher than $4 billion and the Legislature is providing hundreds of thousands extra on a border safety project in which he has extinct recount troopers, the Nationwide Guard, recount prisons and recount trespassing legal pointers in a recount-operated immigration enforcement program known as Operation Lone Megastar.

Texas has viewed jumps in apprehensions of folks crossing the border from Mexico, many of whom flip themselves in and demand for asylum. With the return of warm climate and the anticipated lifting of a virulent disease-generation laws known as Title 42, which made expelling folks more uncomplicated, a jump in the present numbers is anticipated.