Texas just threw down the gauntlet.

[smokingman]

Texas Seizes Control Of Border City Park, Escalating War Against Illegal Immigration | ZeroHedge

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Go Texas!!!

 

[daddyusmaximus]

Their border... (as well as ours)

God bless Texas. Hey that would make a cool song... lol.

 

[racegunz]

With all the Californians/ west coast liberals moving into Texas this wont last long. Austin needs to change its name to New Seattle.

 

[dieselrealtor]

Interesting take from a liberal consulting firm;

"What we found

Overall, non-native Texans were much more conservative than the state as a whole, and some moved to Texas explicitly because of its conservative politics."

SURVEY: Despite GOP fears, new Texans are pushing the state to the right

Between 2010 and 2020, California essentially lost a congressional district to Texas, with somewhere around three-quarters of a million people moving from the Golden State to the Lone Star State. And the perception on the ground is that this migration has sped up since the pandemic started.

chismstrategies.com

 

[Kdf101]

Interesting take from a liberal consulting firm;

What we found

Overall, non-native Texans were much more conservative than the state as a whole, and some moved to Texas explicitly because of its conservative politics.

SURVEY: Despite GOP fears, new Texans are pushing the state to the right

Between 2010 and 2020, California essentially lost a congressional district to Texas, with somewhere around three-quarters of a million people moving from the Golden State to the Lone Star State. And the perception on the ground is that this migration has sped up since the pandemic started.

chismstrategies.com

I hope this is true. I have been to Texas many times, and if I ever move out of Indiana it would probably be to Texas.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

This could get even more interesting.

 

[Route 45]

Texas blocks federal border agents from processing migrants in Eagle Pass public park

After seizing control of Shelby Park, Texas National Guard units deployed by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott have prevented Border Patrol agents from entering the area.

www.cbsnews.com

 

[Leadeye]

Not sure what dc can do in this situation other than complain to big media. I don't see them sending US regulars to face down the Texas guard over this. Maybe they will sand the FBI in to arrest Abbott.

 

[Route 45]

 

[BehindBlueI's]

Can you imagine what this country (and our economy) would look like if:

Instead of NAFTA we'd actually secured our borders in 1994? Made, and enforced, significant criminal penalties for hiring non-eligible workers? Kept blue collar wages at the same ratio to CEO pay as existed then?

Good on Texas, and I mean that, and I hope it helps that local area. For the overall issue, it's too little, too late, and we've all paid the price for the 'job creators' to keep having access to cheap and disposable labor.

 

[Ark]

Great move. Force Biden to either stop helping illegals cross through the park, or very publicly use armed federal force against Texans to open the border back up for the swarm.

 

[Mongo59]

With all the Californians/ west coast liberals moving into Texas this wont last long. Austin needs to change its name to New Seattle.

East San Francisco...

 

[Mongo59]

I hope this is true. I have been to Texas many times, and if I ever move out of Indiana it would probably be to Texas.

A famous person once said, "If I owned Hell and Texas, I would live in Hell and rent out Texas..."

 

[Mikey1911]

A famous person once said, "If I owned Hell and Texas, I would live in Hell and rent out Texas..."

William Tecumseh Sherman

 

[Alamo]

I posted this over in the bussing illegals thread before I realized that this thread existed.

As I understand it, the Texas National Guard, altho already patrolling, seized Shelby Park, which is city and therefore state land. The fed border patrol was cutting Texas-installed concertina wire barriers, letting illegals thru and using the park to stage illegals for further processing and transportation. Texas had already obtained an 5th circuit injunction against the federal government for cutting concertina wire.

The border patrol union posted a tweet saying they support Texas in this move.

 

[HKFaninCarmel]

Interesting take from a liberal consulting firm;

"What we found

Overall, non-native Texans were much more conservative than the state as a whole, and some moved to Texas explicitly because of its conservative politics."

SURVEY: Despite GOP fears, new Texans are pushing the state to the right

Between 2010 and 2020, California essentially lost a congressional district to Texas, with somewhere around three-quarters of a million people moving from the Golden State to the Lone Star State. And the perception on the ground is that this migration has sped up since the pandemic started.

chismstrategies.com

Ted Cruz said he thought he beat Beto because of the influx.

Texas should just declare independence and wall it off from north to south. I'd move back.

 

[xwing]

Interesting take from a liberal consulting firm;

"What we found

Overall, non-native Texans were much more conservative than the state as a whole, and some moved to Texas explicitly because of its conservative politics."

SURVEY: Despite GOP fears, new Texans are pushing the state to the right

Between 2010 and 2020, California essentially lost a congressional district to Texas, with somewhere around three-quarters of a million people moving from the Golden State to the Lone Star State. And the perception on the ground is that this migration has sped up since the pandemic started.

chismstrategies.com

Makes sense. I moved to Indiana from Illinois due to politics. (And given what Illinois has done in the last year, I got out just in time!) People are more likely to move to places where they feel welcome than to places where they feel prosecuted.

 

[Magyars]

Keep poking the bear, don't be surprised if you get bit!

 

[Leadeye]

Maybe this will get the man behind the curtain in dc out into the light.

It certainly is a mess that has gotten worse every year, exponentially in the last few.

 

[BehindBlueI's]

The border patrol union posted a tweet saying they support Texas in this move.

I've posted this before, but I think it bares a repeat in this context. My unit was assigned to assist Border Patrol for 2 months as part of JTF-6. I believe it was 1998, but it could be a year +/-. We were Combat Engineers and we would spend a month building a fence and a month riding with BP alternatively. This was in Douglas, AZ. Relevant to this statement:

The BP heavily recruited us while we were there, come work for BP after the Army, no college degree required, pension rolls over, etc. Literally none of us did. Not one. The job just looked so no-win even then. Nothing you did could really make a difference even then. Catch and release even then.

I understand how bitter and cynical I sound on this topic, but it's a ****ing decades old issue that every single POTUS and Congress has ignored, actively assisted, and only made noise about when it was politically advantageous. Neither side wants to fix it, and I deleted the rest of what I typed because I don't need to rant that rant again. Few things I can't control work me up like this, and a side order of **** Bill Clinton.