With the announcement of the entry of the Republican governor of Texas Greg Abbott in the United StatesState of warThe National Guard has begun a standoff with the U.S. military, with all 25 states expressing support for Texas and opposition to the federal government. If you don't accept it, just do it! These states sent the National Guard to support Texas, and heavy equipment such as tanks and armored vehicles began to be pulled to the front.
Less than a month into the first year of 2024, the world's most powerful military force is on the verge of a "civil war".
Immigration contradictions ferment, red and blue states "divorce"?
The cause of this incident is Biden's immigration policy, and the Democratic Party has been opening up illegal immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico border in order to get more votes.
Let's take a look at a set of data first: When Trump was in office in 2019, the number of illegal immigrants in the United States was about 90 to 1.02 million, and in order to settle illegal immigrants, the United States spent $1.7 billion. In 2022, the number of registered illegal immigrants was about 2.2 million; By 2023, it has risen to 2.7 million people, and the cost of illegal immigration resettlement has reached $8.5 to $9.4 billion.
In recent years, Biden has greatly relaxed border management, resulting in a skyrocketing number of illegal immigrants, and their foothold is mainly in Texas. These illegal immigrants often cause serious social security problems, such as drugs and violent crimes, causing the state** to have to use the money that would otherwise be used for people's livelihood to deal with illegal immigration. As a result, Texas is deeply disgusted with Biden's immigration policy, and there was an incident last year when the bus was used to illegally move ** to Washington.
On December 18 of last year, Abbott signed a bill criminalizing immigrants illegally crossing the border into Texas. The new bill gives local law enforcement the power to arrest illegal immigrants while giving judges the power to issue orders to deport illegal immigrants to Mexico. At Abbott's behest, the Texas National Guard began erecting barbed wire fences along the U.S.-Mexico border and using force to prevent illegal immigrants from entering the state.
On January 22, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court voted 5 to 4 to approve a request by Biden** to allow Border Patrol to remove part of the barbed wire fence along the Texas border that is used to deter illegal immigration. In order to prevent the barbed wire fence from being torn down, Abbott immediately launched a code name".Operation Lone Star".mobilized the local Texas National Guard to continue building and reinforcing the barbed wire. The local National Guard even engaged in a "face-to-face confrontation" with federal law enforcement officers at a point on the border, and the conflict between the two sides "further" escalated, directly leading to the confrontation between the "red states" of the United States and the federal **.
Abbott announced the activation of Article I, Section 10, Item 3 of the U.S. Constitution. The clause states:If a state is invaded, it has the right to enter a state of martial law and act without regard to Congress or **. In the current situation, Texas could even bypass Biden to request assistance from other states or even foreign countries.
Just after the contradiction between Texas and the federal ** became public, it quickly expanded into a bipartisan contradiction in the United States. On January 25, the Association of Republican Governors published a joint letter signed by 25 Republican governors in the United States. The joint letter openly supports the Texas governor's anti-immigrant measures, criticizes Biden's immigration policies, and plays the sign of the "Constitution" of the United States. Republican congressmen even raised the United States"Red and blue states"Not as well"State divorce" 。
Trump also commented, saying that if he were **, he would use his power to protect the "terrible invasion" that is currently taking place in the United States, and that Texas would receive "full support".
Texas Independence, Civil War 2Version 0? We usually have a little misunderstanding of the translation of "state" in the United States, in fact, every state in the United States is legally equivalent to "country".They have their own separate laws, independent armed forces, **cannot be directly appointed**, the United States of America" means, in fact, "a union of a bunch of countries".。In particular, Texas was the land that North American colonists snatched from Mexico to form the "Lone Star Republic".It joined the U.S. Commonwealth as a republic
As the stronghold of white conservatives in the United States, the Texan people defend traditional American values, and have long been dissatisfied with the immigration policy of the Democratic Party, and have become more and more "independent" in recent years. The people of Texas are now imagining a bright future for Texas after independence. They believe that Texas is the second most economically developed state in the United States, larger than France, with a population of more than 30 million, and a strong military-industrial production capacity, which will be immediately after independence."The eighth largest economy in the world", directly surpassing Russia. Moreover, Texas also has its own army, which includes at least one integrated army division, two integrated army combat brigades, one air combat brigade, five fighter brigades, one air transport brigade, and seven independent regiments plus a large number of logistics support troops. These troops are all under the control of the governor of Texas, not the United States**. In the eyes of the Texans, Texas is completely self-sufficient, and does not have to pay for the poor policies of the Democratic Party to feed the illegal immigrants.
At the end of 2023, Republican lawmakers in Texas introduced a bill calling for a referendum in the state to decide whether Texas will declare independence from the United States. This move has received a great response among Texans, with a recent poll showing that more than 60 percent of Texans approve of Texas independence.
On April 12, 1861, the Northern capitalists wanted to "emancipate the slaves", the Southern slave owners opposed, and the Civil War broke out, kicking off the first American Civil War. In 2024, the Republican Texas of the South wants to drive out the "illegal immigrants", but the Democratic Party of the North does not agree, and the two sides are at war. It's a magical history.
Historically, the largest and most numerous war launched by the United States was the American Civil War, that is, the Civil War.
But what is interesting is that in the American Civil War, it was the "Democratic Party" that supported the Southern slave owners and insisted on white supremacy, and the "Republican Party" that supported the northern industrial capitalists and paid attention to minorities, which is completely opposite to the situation today.
This is because the Founding Fathers of the American Revolutionary War were all big slave owners and estate owners, and their base was on the plantations in the South. In 1854, the Democratic Party, which supported slavery in the South, was enacted by virtue of congressional superiorityKansas-Nebraska Act, which provides that the newly formed states of Kansas and Nebraska, located north of the 36th parallel, have the right to become abolitionist or slave-owning states at their own discretion. Northern parliamentarians believe that the move overturned 1820The Missouri CompromiseSlavery will continue to spread in the United States. The two sides mobilized their own villagers to move into the two states, trying to influence the outcome with votes, and bloody clashes broke out.
The original "Republican Party" was a coalition against the "Democratic Party", and the Whigs, liberals in the Democratic Party, and other abolitionist forces united together to advocate the abolition of slavery, the emancipation of black slaves, the right to free land, the right to free labor, and the right to free human rights. They represented the interests of the industrial capitalists of the North, who sought to snatch "free labor" from the slave owners of the South, who called themselves "Republicans".
In 1860, Republican Lincoln was elected **, insisting on abolition, and in 1861, the Civil War broke out, and the United States **,The North is called the "Union" and the South is called the "Confederacy".。To this day, many whites in the South also like to fly this "Confederate" flag.
The Confederate flag was the flag that represented the Southern Army during the American Civil War in the 19th century, with two blue stripes diagonally crossed on a red background (St. Andrew's Cross) and 13 white stars inside, representing the 13 pro-slavery states of the time. The American Civil War ended with the Republican victory of the North and the defeat of the Democrats of the South.
Under the impetus of the radical wing of the Republican Party, Congress completed the Amendment to the Constitution, formally enshrined the abolition of slavery and the guarantee of voting rights for people of color. The radicals, led by Grant**, also supported the continued stationing of Northern Union troops in the South after the war to ensure the smooth emancipation of black slaves and suppress the gun-owning white militias in the South, such as the Ku Klux Klan, the White Alliance, the Sequoia Army, and various white rifle groups. Later, the Republican Party caused infighting within the party due to the corruption of Grant**.
In the post-war reconstruction (1865-1877) after the Civil War, the Republican Party's promotion of affirmative action was repeatedly stymied by white supremacist militias and the various ways in which white lords threatened voters. And because of the disagreement within the Republican Party, the Democratic Party also won a lot in the congressional election and controlled the House of Representatives. In 1876, the newly elected Republican Hayes made the 1877 agreement to withdraw Union troops from the South, and the postwar reconstruction period officially ended. The North is tired of the resistance of the South, and the Democrats effectively control all of the South's legislatures, states**, localities**, and even Congress, and can continue to pursue white racial policies in the South, and the White militia in the South will no longer engage in armed resistance. The North and the South continue to be in opposition to the North and the South on the issue of race, while the Democrats and Republicans then shift the issue from race to economic development.
Originally, white Southerners were the iron votes of the Democratic Party, but during the "Great Depression", everyone was more concerned about economic issues, and from 1893 to 1897, due to the failure of European investors, the run on the United States caused a famine. Five hundred banks in the United States failed, 15,000 banks went bankrupt, and many farms were forced to close. The U.S. unemployment rate has soared, entering an unprecedented recession. The two parties in the United States began to debate whether to maintain the gold standard or switch to the gold and silver standard. Republicans and their business magnates and bank supporters supported the gold standard, while the Democrats' peasants and working class supported the mining of silver mines and the change to the gold and silver standard to increase inflation and relieve debt pressures.
Due to the economic depression, the Republican Party supports the most protective policy of raising tariffs in order to promote the take-off of domestic industry and commerce. In China, it is a free market economy that does not intervene. Because of this, the Republican Party does not support legislation to prohibit child labor, does not support labor protection policies, does not support antitrust, and does not support federal bills regulating food, drugs, drinking water, and the environment. In the latter part of his administration, the Republican Party began to vigorously regulate railroad companies, food safety, and antitrust. From this time on, the basic structure of the Democratic Party and the Republican Party began to change, and the white people in the South, the working and peasant class, began to support the Republican Party, and the image of the Republican Party began to become "conservative".
The core of Texas disobedience is bipartisan contradictions and **
Today, the battle between the Democrats and the Republicans is known as the "Red and Blue Dispute." Those who support the Republican Party in the United States are called "red states", and those who support the Democratic Party are called "blue states". But for a long time after the founding of the United States, the parties represented by red and blue were the opposite of today: red represented the Democratic Party in the early days, while blue represented the Republican Party. Historically, the United States has largely inherited the European political tradition of using red for liberal or leftist parties (such as the British Labour Party) and blue for conservative right-wing parties (such as the British Conservative Party).
From about 2000 onwards, people gradually gave more and more red to the more conservative Republican Party, while blue became the representative of the Democratic Party. But in fact, Republican conservatives like Trump, as well as many conservative white people in the American public (commonly known as "red necks"), they are the real "fundamentalist liberals" in the United States, and they believe in the "American spirit" at the beginning of the founding of the United States, that is, the law of the jungle, the law of the jungle, the law of the jungle, do-it-yourself, opposition to big **, and religion, in fact, they are the real "right-wing". Therefore, they oppose some hypocritical "white left" practices of the Democratic Party, such as open immigration, drug legalization, LGBT, black life matter and other political correctness.
One of the main issues in this year's U.S. election is the wave of illegal immigration. Texas Gov. Abbott is a supporter of Trump, who is using immigration as a key means of regaining the White House. The conflict and confrontation between Texas and the U.S. federal government over the immigration issue is by no means an emergency, but the final outbreak of the long-term accumulation of long-term contradictions and partisan struggles in the United States.
Douglas Brinkley, a professor of history at Rice University in the United States, believesThe United States is at an unprecedented moment in its history, and it can even be said that it is already in "a new kind of civil war."
In the past few years, deep-seated contradictions in American society have intensified. In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, the Occupy Wall Street movement emerged in the United States. During the epidemic, white police officers in the United States "knelt to kill" black people, and the "Black Lives Matter" anti-police violence law enforcement and racial discrimination movement swept the United States. In 2021, the U.S. Capitol Hill was occupied by thousands of people dissatisfied with the election results, triggering bloody clashes, and "American-style democracy" was humiliated. The "up and down" contradictions between classes, the "black and white" contradictions between races, the "left and right" contradictions between parties, the contradictions between the virtual economy and the real economy, and the contradictions between globalism and nationalismThe superposition of all kinds of contradictions has completely shattered the myth of the "melting pot" that the United States prides itself on. The current United States is a "mixture of oil and water", divided and scattered, and may become a "big boiler" at any time.
Previously, the United States was confident. Now, a good hand is getting worse and worse. The internal contradictions are too great and there is no solution to them, and the United States is beginning to become less confident. It can be described that the "prime of life" of the United States as a person is over, and it has begun to enter "menopause" and has become very bad-tempered. The current United States may not know itself, he knows that it is wrong to be irritable, but he cannot restrain himself "physically".
The United States just "looks beautiful."