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Texas National Guard Blocking Feds From Getting to Border, US DOJ Alleges
(www.businessinsider.com)
So arrest the guardsmen
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how is this not blatantly obstruction of justice?
Republicans: ThE fOunDeRs DiDn'T mEaN LitErALlY oBsTrUct! bLoCkInG tHe FeDs iS oK aNd CoOl!
Send a tank regiment sown there and be like, you’re blocking what now?
I like your energy but highly unconstitutional and a bit of overkill.
Realistically what they need to do is start arresting the Texas national guard leadership, that'll take them down a notch, no leadership, no coordination, no more opposition.
Sounds like an act of civil war. Spank them... spank them hard, daddy.
Honestly this. Let them "rise up" and see how American they feel against the rest of the US army... Assuming the army doesn't turn on us too. Ya never know these days eh 🙃
How old is America now?
The USA declared independence in 1776. The actual government they have today formed a few years after. Not entirely sure when the Mexican government we know today formed. The North and Southern American contents have been there since pangea broke up.
Roughly 200-250 years depending on whether you start counting at declaration of independence, articles of confederation, or ratification of the constitution.
Seeing how history repeating itself is doing so from multiple centuries at one time. If you are a leftist, then you NEED to be arming yourself and making efforts to join orgs/groups of comrades. The far-right and the constantly enabling centrists are doing the same song and dance done before the Civil War and all of the Red Scares. They don't wish to fight the rich elites/capitalists that profit from the constant repeating of history and gaslighting the masses. They are going to welcome fascism as their methods of keeping power. It is the centrists/moderates that allowed Nazi Germany to happen. It is the centrists/moderates that allowed slavery and segregation to stay around. They are what allowed child labour and complete disregard for workers' safety and health to continue. They want you to just ignore it all and tune-out (unless it serves them to call attention for their political theatre). We keep us safe!
The problem is most leftists don't like guns so joining an org wouldnt be very effective from a defense standpoint
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The federal government alleged that Texas state officials also erected new fencing farther inland.
"That fencing further restricts Border Patrol's ability to reach the river in particular areas," the Justice Department said in the filing.
The government said that before Wednesday evening, Border Patrol agents could drive trucks with mounted surveillance equipment to various locations in this area and that those trucks were used "to maintain visibility and awareness of activity along this stretch of the river and border."
"But the Texas National Guard has now blocked Border Patrol's access to the area, rendering its agents unable to place mobile surveillance trucks," the Justice Department said in the Friday filing.
The department said in the filing that the "new actions" by Texas "demonstrate an escalation of the State's measures to block Border Patrol's ability to patrol or even to surveil the border and be in a position to respond to emergencies."
The filing is part of a legal battle involving immigration enforcement at the border between the Biden administration and the Republican-controlled state.
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It's a fight over fences. They'll either work it out or go to court.
I hope they're just being assholes. That's not unbelievable.
Part of me wonders what they are hiding. They've been pretty proud of atrocities at the border before. Again, I hope they're just being assholes.
Wow
The balkanization begins...
What's the political motivation?
Governor Hot Wheels hates Mexicans.
Imagine if there was a station set up to load up buses and ship them up north. Imagine if you wanted to manufacture a border crisis.