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In a show of unwavering dedication, the Texas Nationwide Guard has doubled down on their efforts to guard the border regardless of a current Supreme Court docket ruling.
Governor Greg Abbott has made it clear that Texas won’t shrink within the face of opposition stating, “Texas will not back down from our efforts to secure the border in Biden’s absence.”
Earlier this week, in a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court docket granted an emergency request filed by the Joe Biden administration arguing that Texas was stopping federal brokers from finishing up their duties. The ruling permits federal brokers to chop via or take away razor wire that had been put in on the southern border.
The Texas Nationwide Guard, nonetheless, issued an announcement saying that they’d no intentions of backing down of their effort to safe the border.
“The Texas Military Department continues to hold the line in Shelby Park to deter and prevent unlawful entry into the State of Texas. We remain resolute in our actions to secure our border, preserve the rule of law, and protect the sovereignty of our State,” they mentioned in an announcement.
Abbott posted an analogous message on social media concluding, “Texas will not back down from our efforts to secure the border in Biden’s absence.”
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Texas Nationwide Guard Received’t Again Down
It’s clear that the Texas Nationwide Guard is dedicated to holding the road and defending the border, regardless of the fee.
In actual fact, video posted to social media exhibits them doubling down on their efforts and organising much more razor wire within the space of Eagle Move, Texas, a hotbed of unlawful immigrant crossings.
The Guard seized management of Shelby Park weeks in the past, limiting Border Patrol from accessing the world and claiming federal brokers “perpetuate illegal crossings.”
Additionally they seem like utilizing large transport containers as a makeshift border wall, one thing Arizona tried to do earlier than the Biden administration took them to court docket and compelled their removing.
Texas Nationwide Guard troopers are organising extra razor wire right here in Eagle Move to repel unlawful crossings.
Yesterday, the Supreme Court docket allowed the Biden administration to take away this wire however Texas continues to be blocking Border Patrol from processing migrants on this space. pic.twitter.com/edptUKNobz
— Camilo Montoya-Galvez (@camiloreports) January 23, 2024
The Supreme Court docket’s ruling could have created a authorized battle, but it surely has additionally galvanized the resolve of Governor Abbott and the Texas Nationwide Guard.
That resolve has raised the ire of Democrat congressman Joaquin Castro (TX), who laughably claimed Abbott is creating chaos on the border (projection) and referred to as on President Biden to grab management of the Texas Nationwide Guard.
“Governor Greg Abbott is using the Texas National Guard to obstruct and create chaos at the border,” Castro mentioned. “If Abbott is defying yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling, [President Biden] needs to establish sole federal control of the Texas National Guard now.”
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Castro, as is commonly the case, is misinformed. The razor wire was applied to remove chaos and disaster and restore order on the border.
Nonetheless, in sure circumstances, the federal authorities can certainly seize management of a state’s Nationwide Guard. This is named “federalization” and is usually finished via the usage of – get this – the Revolt Act.
That’s proper: Castro believes the Texas Nationwide Guard needs to be absorbed by the federal authorities as a result of, as worded within the Structure below the Act, they’ve the facility “to suppress insurrections.”
Folks wanting the rule of regulation and truthful elections on this nation are the enemy within the eyes of the Democrat Occasion, when the actual enemy of this nation is sitting comfortably within the White Home.
Some Republican lawmakers are viewing the federal authorities’s constant efforts to strip states of their proper to defend the nation’s border as acts of aggression.
“The feds are staging a civil war, and Texas should stand their ground,” Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) mentioned after the Supreme Court docket ruling.
So far, they’re. However would anybody be shocked if President Biden referred to as within the navy to take management of the border scenario? And by “take control,” we imply squash the efforts of the Texas Nationwide Guard and open the border as huge as potential.
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