This is the best summary I could come up with:
The federal government alleged that Texas state officials also erected new fencing farther inland.
“That fencing further restricts Border Patrol’s ability to reach the river in particular areas,” the Justice Department said in the filing.
The government said that before Wednesday evening, Border Patrol agents could drive trucks with mounted surveillance equipment to various locations in this area and that those trucks were used “to maintain visibility and awareness of activity along this stretch of the river and border.”
“But the Texas National Guard has now blocked Border Patrol’s access to the area, rendering its agents unable to place mobile surveillance trucks,” the Justice Department said in the Friday filing.
The department said in the filing that the “new actions” by Texas “demonstrate an escalation of the State’s measures to block Border Patrol’s ability to patrol or even to surveil the border and be in a position to respond to emergencies.”
The filing is part of a legal battle involving immigration enforcement at the border between the Biden administration and the Republican-controlled state.
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Sounds good to me. If the federal government isn’t gonna do its job and protect our borders, it falls on the states to take up that mantle.
Seeing how history repeating itself is doing so from multiple centuries at one time. If you are a leftist, then you NEED to be arming yourself and making efforts to join orgs/groups of comrades. The far-right and the constantly enabling centrists are doing the same song and dance done before the Civil War and all of the Red Scares. They don’t wish to fight the rich elites/capitalists that profit from the constant repeating of history and gaslighting the masses. They are going to welcome fascism as their methods of keeping power. It is the centrists/moderates that allowed Nazi Germany to happen. It is the centrists/moderates that allowed slavery and segregation to stay around. They are what allowed child labour and complete disregard for workers’ safety and health to continue. They want you to just ignore it all and tune-out (unless it serves them to call attention for their political theatre). We keep us safe!
The problem is most leftists don’t like guns so joining an org wouldnt be very effective from a defense standpoint
So arrest the guardsmen
And thats how you get a shootout that potentially spirals into Texas attempting to seceede, violently.
No, it doesnt make any legal sense.
Do you think angry armed Texans care about this?
No, it doesnt make any economic sense either.
Again, a large number of people in Texas do not inhabit reality. They inhabit delusion QTard MAGA land.
So the federal government backs down every time a state now threatens it? Or some nutjobs within that state threaten to secede?
I might remember some things in the south differently…
Good riddance.
So we glass the governor’s private residence and finish what reconstruction failed to do a century ago. The armed and “well regulated” militia is on the highest copium possible thinking an ar-15 is anything the government fears.
Texas will never secede. Some Texans may try to secede and we’ll have another Brach Dividian, but the state will still stay in the union.
Source: am Texan.
Thats what I am talking about. Of course it would not in the long run ‘work’ or ‘make sense’, but it would be essentially Waco 2.0, with the potential this time to embolden various other armed and dumb and violent right wingers all around the country, of which there are more, and they are more extreme and angry than during the Militia Movement 90s.
I grew up with a dad whose politics were heavily shaped by Ruby Ridge in WA.
While that situation was obviously a use of an absurd amount of force and arguably entrapment, such people like my dad now spend their days manufacturing/assembling illegal firearms in their garage, as they blather on about how Antifa did Jan 6th and Tom Hank’s son kills rapes and eats babies for their adrenochrome, and i strongly get the impression there are a lot of similarly extreme and delusional people doing similar illegal dangerous nonsense all around America.
Powder keg.
It was already a deadly situation. Or are you saying that drowning migrants are more acceptable.
No, I am just pointing out a likely/possible outcome of pursuing a possible course of action.
It’s a fight over fences. They’ll either work it out or go to court.
What’s the political motivation?
Imagine if there was a station set up to load up buses and ship them up north. Imagine if you wanted to manufacture a border crisis.
Governor Hot Wheels hates Mexicans.
how is this not blatantly obstruction of justice?
Republicans: ThE fOunDeRs DiDn’T mEaN LitErALlY oBsTrUct! bLoCkInG tHe FeDs iS oK aNd CoOl!
Sounds like an act of civil war. Spank them… spank them hard, daddy.
How old is America now?
Roughly 200-250 years depending on whether you start counting at declaration of independence, articles of confederation, or ratification of the constitution.
The balkanization begins…
