Texas has seized a portion of the U.S.-Mexico border in a bizarre, tragic, and high-stakes bid to claim for itself a power which has long been federal: control of the international border.
if we can’t do it we leave our citizens unprotected in various ways,” Paxton told state lawmakers.
Heaven knows we need to be “protected” from asylum seekers from impoverished countries, especially when they’re viciously drowning themselves.
There is literally no reasonable argument for our border policies, which unreasonably restrict people who want to come here and improve our economy from doing so.
The fact that we are having this debate, the fact that Texas is willing to kill innocent people, this is all about racism.
This is the Fort Sumter of the 21st Century US Civil War. Am I going too far here? This situation is unnerving. The situation will get out of hand quickly. People have already died and more will if the Texas National Guard members get trigger happy.
What nasty mischief! May Abbott and Paxton reap what they sow.
It does sound like the threat of a one state secession to me. If the fascist big shots in Texas had any integrity or courage they’d just ram their secession through the legislature and be done with it.
I feel bad for the millions of good people living in Texas today. It must suck to watch the fascists lighting the powder keg.
I think being a member of the Texas National Guard means you’re almost certainly already trigger-happy.
And I don’t think you’re going too far to call it a Sumter. It will probably drag out in courts instead of becoming a shooting war. Except, of course, if TFG gets re-elected. Then we probably get to Texas shooting border-crossers on sight, as they’ve said they want to do.
It seems like they need a reminder of what one of their cherished sons, Sam Houston, figured out back in his day: running an independent country is hard. You have to have working treaties with your neighbors and you need the money to support your infrastructure…and you need money, come to think of it. You’d better have a stable ratio of imports and exports or at least enough economic strength to handle any imbalance.
It’s not all standing on the border with your pop-gun.
It’ll be the North that leaves this time, sick of the Party who gets less votes controlling the country,
Texas is usurping US sovereignty in the area of border control, and it is nullifying US law, which according to the Constitution is the “supreme law of the land.”
One of the few admirable things that Andrew Jackson did was to stare down John C. Calhoun and his South Carolina nullifiers in the early 1830s. Faced with South Carolina’s attempt to nullify US tariff law, Jackson swore that he would invade South Carolina and hang Calhoun (his former vice-president). And he meant it. Calhoun and the nullifiers knew that Jackson meant it, too. That’s why they backed down.
Maybe some serious federal threats to Abbott and his gang of fascist nullifiers are in order.
No, they don’t. Texas has allong been a low-to-no tax, low-to-no service state. Private industry! Libertardianism!
Although they might potentially notice when the United States shuts down, empties, and shutters all those cushy economy-driving military bases currently in the traitor state of Tejas.
Abbott is pressing his luck. This is a desperate act of a desperate person. Things have slowly evolved here in TX and it is not good for the GOP. It is just a matter of time.
It is well past time to take charge of Texas.
We are financing some of their mischief with our tax money going to many military bases.
Now is the time to start shrinking these bases by moving parts or whole units to other states, mainly arms.
Right. Let’s make sure the only risks to citizens of Texas are rampant gun violence, freezing or cooking to death, or car accidents.
Don’t forget the chemical plant explosions.
“Now, Texas is physically blocking border patrol agents from accessing parts of the frontier, an extraordinary usurpation of federal authority.”
Achieved with threat of armed enforcement of a state governor’s orders to National Guard. This is both sedition and insurrection according to the dictionary.
I think it’s time for Biden to bring the Texas National Guard under federal control and order them to leave the vicinity. Any soldier that ignores that order will be courtmartialed, it’s a legal order by their commander in chief that they must follow.
You can bet that some of those guys are glad to be at the border causing suffering for the migrants, and too many of them saw the deaths as a good thing to deter others from coming. The people who are coming will continue to come, they are desperate and see coming here as their only lifeline (or the one for their kids), and stopping them from taking a dangerous route risking death will require actual reform of the immigration system, which Republicans are gleefully blocking so they can use it as a political cudgel against Biden. Assholes.
Texas isn’t going to secede, and neither are the other red states…for all their bluster they know full well their states would collapse without federal support. Even Texas can’t support itself, and if it suddenly tried to tax people they would have their own civil war going on. They can’t manage their government affairs very well even with federal support. It does make me wonder what it will take for Texans, and people in red states in general, to realize how shoddy their state governments perform and get rid of them…even a conservative government that was not insane would be an improvement over what is going on now.
You mean “freedom”?
Did I mention…
