According to Newsweek's February 21, Daniel Miller, chairman of the Texas nationalist movement, said that tens of thousands of Democrats in Texas support the state's secession from the United States.
Miller's criticism of Texas Governor Greg Abbott and others has grown stronger in light of the disagreement between Texas and the U.S. federal ** over how to secure the U.S.-Mexico border, the report said.
The report pointed out that although the number of illegal immigrants in the United States and Texas declined from December to January this year, the problem remains a focus of attention.
Following a January letter to Abbott calling for a special session of the Texas legislature to be convened and "put the Texas issue to a vote," Miller and other pro-secession activists visited Abbott's office on Feb. 13 and personally submitted more than 170,000 signatures — part of a legislative effort to put the initiative to vote in the state's Republican primary.
According to the report, Miller told a reporter from Newsweek on the 16th that the book exceeded the prescribed threshold and "completely broke the box of the Republican primary."
Of the more than 170,000 signatures, 139456 were reported to belong to Republicans. The rest are Democrats, to whom Miller told that if more Democrats supported faster action, "we're going to have a completely different conversation [across the state]."
"Those Democratic voters jumped out in support of Texas secession simply because they recognized that this core issue doesn't apply to the normal partisan divisions we're used to," Miller said. (Compiled by Lu Di).