Texas just threw down the gauntlet.

[Compatriot G]

This is interesting timing. Doesn't the movie about a Civil War come out in April? In the movie, it has Texas on the side against the Federal government.

 

[DadSmith]

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

Will see in November just how conservative they are.

 

[Creedmoor]

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.

1998? It was a problem 25 years before that. Growing up around DC you constantly read in the paper and watched on the news, endless immigration raids all around Md,DC and Virginia and hauling dozens of illegals to jail while working in the landscape, hotel, restaurant, country club and many outer manual labor businesses.

 

[jwamplerusa]

I suspect the federal government will federalize the Texas national guard in order to stop them from working on behalf of the state of texas.

Abbott's next option maybe to use the Texas rangers a relatively unique organization.

 

[NHT3]

Sounds like the defecation is about to hit the rotating reciprocator! Lord knows it's about time

 

[Route 45]

This is interesting timing. Doesn't the movie about a Civil War come out in April? In the movie, it has Texas on the side against the Federal government.

Yep.

 

[BehindBlueI's]

1998? It was a problem 25 years before that. Growing up around DC you constantly read in the paper and watched on the news, endless immigration raids all around Md,DC and Virginia and hauling dozens of illegals to jail while working in the landscape, hotel, restaurant, country club and many outer manual labor businesses.

Nobody said the problem started in 1998. I said I *deployed with JTF-6* in 1998. No **** the problem predates my unit deploying to the border.

 

[DadSmith]

Yep.

California and Texas join forces

 

[Creedmoor]

Nobody said the problem started in 1998. I said I *deployed with JTF-6* in 1998. No **** the problem predates my unit deploying to the border.

Well no ****, it predates what I saw as a kid also. Lighten up.

 

[Cavman]

This is what the national guard should be used for. And those border patrol agents just following orders to allow the illegals in should be fired, ashamed , flogged whatever

 

[BehindBlueI's]

Well no ****, it predates what I saw as a kid also. Lighten up.

Honestly tough for me to 'lighten up' on this topic, so while perhaps good advice...no. Probably best I just move on or I'll ruin my weekend.

 

[Route 45]

Well no ****, it predates what I saw as a kid also. Lighten up.

You run out of manual safety Glock troll posts?

 

[Ark]

1998? It was a problem 25 years before that. Growing up around DC you constantly read in the paper and watched on the news, endless immigration raids all around Md,DC and Virginia and hauling dozens of illegals to jail while working in the landscape, hotel, restaurant, country club and many outer manual labor businesses.

Actually arresting and deporting illegals in raids, now that's a blast from the past.

 

[smokingman]

I suspect the federal government will federalize the Texas national guard in order to stop them from working on behalf of the state of texas.

Abbott's next option maybe to use the Texas rangers a relatively unique organization.

Sperate the rangers back to what they were(premerger with state police). Ask for volunteers to fulfil their prior mission of protecting Texas. Take in any fit to serve. Let them loose.

They do not need a detective agency(what rangers are now), they need the fighting force the rangers used to be.

 

[Cavman]

Every state could help this crisis. Even through legislation. Make state laws against employing illegals tougher. Make it harder for them to get anything from the state. Cut off the incentive for them to come. And punish the ones who do bring them or incentive them to

 

[Creedmoor]

Actually arresting and deporting illegals in raids, now that's a blast from the past.

Lol. My father was a golf guy, with the tournaments around DC he would watch a few eash year. Like at Congressional or Kenwood clubs, twice during tournament's INS had raids when he was there.
He said it was a mass exodus of Spanish running across the golf course with a few dozen agents chasing them.
He always said it looked like a Benny hill show.

 

[Creedmoor]

You run out of manual safety Glock troll posts?

Hell no, start a new thread.
At least be truthful and call it. The mystery of the dingus, "how do it know" when to retract into the trigger, without it being manually pulled back?

 

[Leadeye]

Many years ago I was asked to go with a team to help a vendor get up to speed on required quality. We were all about the same age, young to middle aged white guys dressed business casual for the 90s. After getting a lot of smoke blown our direction in the front office we went through a door to the manufacturing area where everybody was hispanic.

Work stopped instantly and all eyes were on our group. In that instant I was seized by the desire to pull my wallet out of my pocket, hold it in the air, and scream Manos Arriba! INS!

But I didn't, and everybody went back to work in addition to our group. We all had a good laugh about this on our way back after we left.

 

[patience0830]

very publicly use armed federal force against Texans to open the border back up for the swarm.

This might get him an armed march on Washington. Make Jan6 look like a kids party.

 

[Leadeye]

Sperate the rangers back to what they were(premerger with state police). Ask for volunteers to fulfil their prior mission of protecting Texas. Take in any fit to serve. Let them loose.

They do not need a detective agency(what rangers are now), they need the fighting force the rangers used to be.

Break glass in case of real trouble.