Border battle lines: Dems call on Biden to seize control of Texas National Guard, as GOP allies back Abbott
Governors from Florida and Oklahoma proclaim their support for Texas as Democrats call on President Biden to seize control of the Texas National Guard amid southern border crisis.
The last time southern states banded together to fight federal overreach didn’t turn out so well. Let’s hope biden's skinsuit deflates before it comes to blows between him and abbott.
Edit - Abbott has declared an “invasion”, apparently superseding any federal statutes:
https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/governor-abbott-issues-statement-on-texas-constitutional-right-to-self-defense
Should have declared it an invasion a long time ago, but maybe Abbott and Texas NatGuard were testing the waters with the razor wire. Now that even the useless Supreme Court is against states taking matters into their own hands because it "interferes" with the BP not doing their job, he's going to go around them.
Slow escalation in a case like this is best, and I've been pleasantly surprised that Abbot has actually been, y'know, escalating.
Illegal immigration is stupidly unpopular to a degree many don't realize. Depending on what the Fed does, I could see this going in many different directions.
I went to reddit for a look on their take.
There's a lot of tears. But suddenly the liberals love America, the FBI and the constitution.
I saw Vaush wishing they could send Ol' Tecumseh Sherman down there to massacre all the terrible racists of Texas. Their sudden about-faces make me chuckle. Even funnier when people started replying to him Sherman's quote about killing every last Sioux down to the women and children.
Texas Rangers should start arresting and charging Border patrol agents with human trafficking. I'm guessing if you started looking into their finances and following the money it would be an easy conviction.
No. You would be arresting people at the lowest level. Those people get their regular government paychecks and follow orders.
So? What do you think happens if you smack the foot soldiers around? They're gonna start thinking real hard about following orders.
I'm referring to the "follow the money" portion of the previous post.
Fair enough. The foot soldiers don't get paid extra, you're correct on that point. Everybody knows who's actually profiting off of this but as long as the corrupt system is in place you won't get to them. And the only way to take down a corrupt system is to make it unprofitable for the foot soldier.
For example the communist revolution in Russia would have never succeeded if the people had started to ambush and kill the bolshevik foot soldiers instead of just accepting their fate.
Shoot any fed that tries to cut the wire.
Simple. Effective.
Feds only have the right to establish the "Rule of Naturalization" (citizenship), not the Rule of Migration, and to defend the country from invasion.
The only thing the actual Constitution says about migration specifically is that congress can't prohibit states from accepting Persons they "shall think proper to admit" until 1808 (slaves). It doesn't say anything about forcing states to accept anyone and implies states have the power to select who they want to accept (other than citizens who the amendments say they have to accept).
Abbott is wheeling around bigger balls than I thought. As always, the follow up will be the next critical step. We have so many freaking illegals that need to be booted right now.
Maybe the South and Midwest can rise then, American Nations style. They don't have anything in common with the West or East coasts anyhow.
First, the gallant Lone Star State nobly made the stand;
Then came Oklahoma, who took her by the hand;
Next, quickly joined sweltering Florida,
All Rais'd on high the Bonnie Blue Flag that bears a Single Star.