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2024-01-30 Government Corruption
Biden, the border, and Texas: federal troops next?
[American Thinker] In 1957, defiant Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus ignored Supreme Court orders to integrate Little Rock’s Central High School. To enforce the Court’s historic decision, President Dwight Eisenhower federalized the Arkansas National Guard and sent in the 101st Airborne. In 1963, President John F. Kennedy federalized and took control of the Alabama National Guard after Governor George Wallace used guardsmen to block court-ordered integration of the University of Alabama.

The root of today’s contest between Texas and the Oval Office differs from the Arkansas and Alabama episodes. In 1957 and 1963, governors defied federal authorities attempting to uphold the law. Today, the roles are reversed: a governor, Texas’s Greg Abbott, finds himself forced to perform what is largely a federal responsibility—border security—because Washington, D.C. categorically refuses to perform its constitutional duty. Ground Zero for Abbott’s effort is Eagle Pass, Texas, where the Texas National Guard and the Texas Department of Public Safety have barred illegal entry by border violators over federal objections.

Count on this: the White House would justify the use of force against Texas by hijacking the moral authority of Eisenhower, Kennedy, and the Warren Supreme Court, who enforced the constitutional rights of black Americans to attend public schools and universities. The White House and its congressional allies already disparage as racist Abbott’s effort to defend Texas from the illegal invasion. The Roberts Supreme Court supplied a pretext for military action against Texas with an order undermining Abbott’s decision to deploy razor wire against illegal entry over a small fraction of Texas’s 1,200 mile border with Mexico in Eagle Pass.

There may be more to come from the Supreme Court as Biden’s anti-Texas lawsuits wind through the federal courts. Up next is Biden’s attempt to upend a new Texas law authorizing Texas courts and prosecutors to punish and expel border violators. But the demonstrated lawlessness of the White House and its Attorney General should leave little doubt that top Biden advisers are now mulling non-judicial strategies: the federalization of the Texas National Guard, and troop deployments to dislodge Texas authorities from Eagle Pass.

When would the Biden administration act to neutralize Abbott? Timing is everything. In 2014, to avoid blowback against the Sochi Winter Olympics, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin delayed his Ukraine invasion until after the games. Likewise, Biden probably would not escalate against Texas before resolution of the current federal budget impasse. Biden’s military action to stamp out Texan self-defense against his catastrophic executive decision to open the border would spell the end of Capitol Hill negotiations on border security, and assistance to Ukraine and Israel, among other programs.
Posted by Besoeker 2024-01-30 05:34|| || Front Page|| [11146 views ]  Top

#1 The Little Rock solution might not go well in Texas. A much larger issue is in play here.
Posted by Besoeker 2024-01-30 05:45||   2024-01-30 05:45|| Front Page Top

#2 3 years ago I would have questioned whether federal troops would have followed those orders, but since Biden/Austin/Milley have gutted the military and replaced it with "Rachel" Levine clones... who knows.
Posted by Mercutio 2024-01-30 06:22||   2024-01-30 06:22|| Front Page Top

#3 Yes, it will be interesting to see how the Texans handle this. Lucky for them they do not have Kemp and Raffensperger to betray them.
Posted by Besoeker 2024-01-30 06:48||   2024-01-30 06:48|| Front Page Top

#4 Not that Brandon Inc are that cognizant, but at least the Chinese understood they couldn't use locally based troops to suppress the Tienanmen Square demonstrators. They imported from regional forces to do the dirty work. Too many military installations rely upon too many of their uniformed and civilian personnel to live among the local population.
Posted by Procopius2k 2024-01-30 07:57||   2024-01-30 07:57|| Front Page Top

#5 Ugly times.



"years ago, Ruby Bridges walked to school escorted by four federal marshals as a White mob hurled insults at her"
Posted by Skidmark 2024-01-30 08:17||   2024-01-30 08:17|| Front Page Top

#6 US Army 452,689.

Texas Population 29.53 million (2021) With lots of pickups and trillions of wild pig rifles. ( And growing fast)
Posted by Angealing B. Hayes4677 2024-01-30 08:33||   2024-01-30 08:33|| Front Page Top

#7 Along with NGs from 25 states.
Posted by Angealing B. Hayes4677 2024-01-30 08:35||   2024-01-30 08:35|| Front Page Top

#8 And these Austin, Tx female shooters.

http://www.sureshotsmagazine.com/
Posted by Angealing B. Hayes4677 2024-01-30 08:41||   2024-01-30 08:41|| Front Page Top

#9 So last week I heard the 82d went on alert over Texas. I heard it was shut down quickly.
Posted by 49 Pan 2024-01-30 11:34||   2024-01-30 11:34|| Front Page Top

#10 I have a very good friend who is a Major in the 82nd. I'm not going to ask him anything because I don't want to put him in jeopardy but I know he is conflicted over all this.
Posted by Deacon Blues 2024-01-30 11:49||   2024-01-30 11:49|| Front Page Top

#11 The SCOTUS decision 22 January merely lifted the prohibition on Feds removing the razor wire barrier.

It did not require Texas to remove the wire. It did not forbid Texas from placing more wire.
Posted by lord garth 2024-01-30 11:49||   2024-01-30 11:49|| Front Page Top

#12 ^ True, but not helpful to The Narrative™
Posted by Frank G 2024-01-30 12:17||   2024-01-30 12:17|| Front Page Top

#13 1. You don't think that this administration can actually DO anyting, do you?
2. This is an election year. Even the MSM couldn't ignore the hideous optics of Biden forcibly opening the border for more illegal immigrants. And the voters (outside the really die-hard Trump-haters) won't like what they see.
Posted by Tom 2024-01-30 12:27||   2024-01-30 12:27|| Front Page Top

#14 The Mexicans don't like the migrants asylum seekers gimmegrants either. When their border with the USA stops being asafety valve, things will change toot sweet on their southern border.
Posted by M. Murcek 2024-01-30 12:37||   2024-01-30 12:37|| Front Page Top

#15  #4, P2K, IIRC, Biden called the Puerto Rico National Guard to fortify Washington DC in the wake of J6.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2024-01-30 12:49||   2024-01-30 12:49|| Front Page Top

#16 
Posted by NoMoreBS 2024-01-30 13:56||   2024-01-30 13:56|| Front Page Top

#17 Joe Biden Says He's Done All He Can Do About U.S.-Mexico Border
Posted by Skidmark 2024-01-30 14:31||   2024-01-30 14:31|| Front Page Top

#18 Mayorkas lashes out at 'baseless' GOP allegations ahead of key impeachment vote
Posted by Skidmark 2024-01-30 14:32||   2024-01-30 14:32|| Front Page Top

#19 
Posted by Anomalous Sources 2024-01-30 19:11||   2024-01-30 19:11|| Front Page Top

#20 The Texas State Guard cannot be federalized. While the other two branches of the Texas Military can, the Texas State Guard cannot. It currently has 2,200 people but as a voluntary organization, that could be expanded /very/ rapidly if needed.
Posted by Silentbrick 2024-01-30 23:37||   2024-01-30 23:37|| Front Page Top

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