The Texas authorities announced their intention to install barbed wire along the entire state border with Mexico (more than 3,000 km), and the authorities also announced the recruitment of volunteers to patrol the "high threat" border area!
Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick said federal authorities needed "a lot of wire cutters" to cut all the barbed wire.
The official website of the Texas National Guard has published a recruitment ad looking for volunteers to join the border mission!
The announcement said: Operation Lone Star "will integrate ** with the Texas Department of Public Safety to deploy border security assets to high-threat areas to stop criminal organizations from illegally transporting drugs and people to Texas."
The Texas Department of Military has offered a new full-time position for Operation Lone Star Border Support Mission. These positions offer a range of benefits, including accommodation and a $55 per day stipend. Volunteers must have medical and administrative abilities and be members of the military from the Texas Military Department.
A part of the United States is also quite dissatisfied with the policy of the United States supporting foreign countries and completely opening its own borders, and has published some comparison charts to whitewash Biden's policies.
Some extremists, removing the American flag, raised the Texas Lone Star flag at the border to express themselves.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott's action is not the first time in history that a local confrontation with the Union has flouted its authority.
In addition to before the Civil War, this has happened twice in recent decades, such as during the struggle to desegregation in schools, and by Southern governors.
De jure speaking, Biden, like his predecessors, has the right and duty to uphold the Constitution, including the use of force.
Although Texas was not one of the original colonies, it was Spanish territory when the Constitution was ratified in 1788 and did not become a state until 1845.
However, when it finally joined, Texas agreed to abide by the Constitution, which gives federal laws the status above state laws.
Border security is a matter for Congress, **, and federal courts to decide and execute, not for Governor Abbott.
No state has the right to flout the Supreme Court from the constitutional system of the United States after the founding of the country, and the court ruled in Biden's favor by a 5-4 vote.
However, Abbott made a Confederate remark, claiming that the Union had "broken the pact between the United States and the states" and that Texas therefore had a "right to self-defense."
Incredibly, however, 25 other Republican governors issued statements on Thursday not only in favor of usurping **power, but also in defiance of the nation's ultimate authority over the Constitution and laws. "We stand with fellow governor Greg Abbott and Texas," the Republican governor declared. ”
South Dakota Gov. Christy Noem explained her position to Fox News:
If Texas and these 13 original colonies did not consider themselves protected to defend themselves and defend the rights of their own people, they would never have signed the treaty that constituted the first Constitution of the United States. So, what Joe Biden is doing is threatening our national sovereignty. ”
Historically, though, the authority of the federation ** did not allow provocations!
In 1957, three years after the Supreme Court's landmark decision to end segregation in public schools, Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus deployed the National Guard to prevent the first nine black students from attending the all-white Little Rock Central High School.
Dwight D. Eisenhower** warned Forbes to back off and abide by the Supreme Court's ruling, but Forbes refused.
So Eisenhower invoked the Rebellion Act of 1807 and sent troops from the 101st Airborne Division to escort black students into the new school.
At the same time, he federalized the entire Arkansas National Guard, wrestling control of this force from Forbes.
In 1963, Alabama Governor George Wallace's "schoolhousegate" incident blocked the way and prevented the first two African-American students, Vivian Malone and James Hood, from enrolling at the University of Alabama.
John F. Kennedy again invoked the Rebellion Act to issue an executive order to federalize the Alabama National Guard. The Guard Commander eventually had to fulfill what he called "grief duty" and let Wallace step aside.
Therefore, there is a legal basis for Biden to end this dispute, and he can directly federalize the Texas National Guard and wrest command from Abbott.
However, there is a real crisis at the border, and Biden and senators from both parties are trying to alleviate it by negotiating a package of reforms.
Governor Abbott's performance fits in with public opinion, especially in this critical year with the support of 25 states, and there doesn't seem to be much Biden can really do.