The conflict between the State of Texas under Gov. Greg Abbott with the US government (under whoever it is that pulls Biden’s strings) is continuing. After Monday’s dubious split decision by the Supreme Court permitting the feds to remove illegal-migrant-blocking concertina wire installed by Texas officials, Abbott again declared his state’s obligation to continue fighting the invasion of Texas by illegal migrants. Since then, two things have happened:
(1) Texas National Guardsmen have busied themselves replacing the wire barriers the feds saw fit to cut. Gov Abbott declared:
Texas’ razor wire is an effective deterrent to the illegal crossings Biden encourages. I will continue to defend Texas’ constitutional authority to secure the border and prevent the Biden admin from destroying our property. The Texas National Guard continues to hold the line in Eagle Pass. Texas will not back down from our efforts to secure the border in Biden’s absence.
In response, some Dems, including Rep. Greg Casar (D-TX), Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX), and current Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke called for Biden seizing control of the Texas Guard. Castro tweeted on Tuesday:
If Abbott is defying yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling, @POTUS needs to establish sole federal control of the Texas National Guard now.
(2) Calls for Texas to secede from the union have increased. X.com saw the creation of a new hashtag, “#TEXIT,” referring to the Texas Nationalist Movement, which supports the state seceding from the US. The leader of that movement, Daniel Miller, tweeted:
If Biden federalizes the Texas National Guard, @GregAbbott_TX should immediately throw enlistment in the Texas State Guard WIDE OPEN, fully militarize them, and deploy them as a Border Protection Force along the entire border.
(The Texas State Guard is the third branch of the Texas Military Department, along with the Texas Army National Guard and the Texas Air National Guard. While the two National Guard units can be federalized, the Texas State Guard cannot. Militarizing them would be a step toward an independent Texas as a military entity.)
In addition, hundreds of Texit supporters have posted to X. Here are a few posts:
- YES, I don’t need the federal government. Bye y’all. #Texit
- As a Texan, I wholeheartedly believe that Texas’ only viable option moving foward is to vote on #TEXIT. The federal government has all but declared war on Texas. We will not continue to tolerate this blatant usurpation of Texas’ sovereignty and Constitutional right to defense.
- Agree, Texit is the only rational option
- And it can’t happen soon enough.
For more, see Fox News. For more comments on #texit, go here.