The Biden administration has not sued. It did win a Supreme Court ruling that it could take down the razor wire that Texas has deployed in Shelby Park and elsewhere, which the administration said has led to drowning deaths among migrants. It has now cut razor wire in some sections of the border, but not in Shelby Park, which it can’t access.
Three Biden administration officials said the Supreme Court’s recent razor wire ruling was a win in federal government’s fight with Texas over Shelby Park, but they concede it does not explicitly give control of the area back to Border Patrol.
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The three Biden administration officials told NBC News they do not want a confrontation between Border Patrol and Texas National Guard, but they still consider legal action a tool they might deploy. Shortly after Texas started blocking the Border Patrol from accessing Shelby Park, a mother and two children drowned while crossing the Rio Grande. The officials say they might have been saved if Border Patrol had been able to operate its equipment to surveil the river and respond to migrants in distress.
For now, however, optics mean the administration is holding fire, said a former Department of Homeland Security official. The official said that between the fight to pass a border bill, defend Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in an impeachment fight, and other lawsuits challenging Texas, taking on the Republican-led state would ignite another fire at a time when the administration wants to appear tougher on border security.
The three Biden administration officials told NBC News they do not want a confrontation between Border Patrol and Texas National Guard, but they still consider legal action a tool they might deploy.
This is only an issue because Biden hasn’t activated title 10 to place them under federal orders…
The administration’s excuse for not taking action, is they haven’t taken prerequisite actions. While refusing to take the prerequisite actions.
Ignoring this makes it worse. Every day Biden refuses to activate them, it because just a little less likely they’ll all listen when he eventually does it.
This shit never works, and this is exactly how civil war 1 started.
There’s not going to be a civil war. Texas couldn’t even get enough warm bodies on the front lines.
There’s not going to be a civil war
We keep saying this, but the fact of the matter is the federal government has lost control of part its territory to the state of Texas. I don’t think we’re there yet, but I also think it’s a really fuzzy line, and we’re definitely headed in the wrong direction towards it.
front lines.
I don’t think a 21st century civil War would have those, it would be a lot of guerilla warfare and nobody will definitively win or lose for a very long time, we’ll just keep seeing headlines about another attack another explosion etc etc
I don’t think we’re there yet, but I also think it’s a really fuzzy line
The really scary problem is that it’s most likely a line we won’t recognize until after it’s been crossed. It’s possible we’ve already crossed the line and are simply waiting for it to get out of control.
That’s why they banned abortion, so they can get the warm bodies 16 years from now.
They want young, dumb cannon fodder/slave(-ish) labor.
Why rush? The Administration knows the law is on their side, and will be whether or not Texas escalates what they are doing. Texas knows this as well, which is why I doubt they will do any huge escalation. Their big headline-grabbing letter quoted the minority opinion in the Supreme Court, and everyone who matters knew that when they read it. Minority = losing. I think they were so loud precisely because they know they are on the wrong side of the legal argument, and want to make noise for their base to react to.
Why should the Administration amplify that by making even more noise? They want to amplify the notion that Republicans in Congress are in disarray and can’t agree to do anything productive at all. Pulling the trigger on a lawsuit (or on federalizing troops there) will just serve to give the “five families” in Congress something to rally around.
The losers here are the migrants, of course, but they are already in a losing position. Lots of people are trying to turn this into another Ruby Bridges moment, but there’s a world of difference between asking for rights for US citizens of color vs. asking for rights for non-US citizens who are in the active process of breaking the law.
