The Department of Homeland Security had directed the state to stop blocking the U.S. Border Patrol’s access to roughly 2½ miles of the U.S.-Mexico border
Texas is refusing to comply with a cease-and-desist letter from the Biden administration over actions by the state that have impeded U.S. Border Patrol agents from accessing part of the border with Mexico.
In a letter to the Department of Homeland Security, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton rejected the Biden administration’s request for the state to “cease and desist” its takeover of Shelby Park, an epicenter of southwest border illegal immigration in Eagle Pass.
“Because the facts and law side with Texas, the State will continue utilizing its constitutional authority to defend her territory, and I will continue defending those lawful efforts in court,” Paxton wrote.
Because the facts and law side with Texas
Lol no they don’t. Paxton knows that. Federal agents always have jurisdiction over the border
Just send in an 18 year old kid with a gun, those Texans will be petrified with fear and won’t even be able to respond. Or does that only work when it’s at a school?
Just designate the area as an “open air campus” and then you’re good to go.
In a letter to the Department of Homeland Security, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton rejected the Biden administration’s request for the state to “cease and desist”
WTF? A cease and desist is a demand, not a “request!”
That’s not even quoting Texas’ fascist AG or anything; that’s the article writers’ own spin. Why are Julia Ainsley and Zoë Richards carrying water for fascists?
Their editors told them it makes more money, I’d guess.
What’s the issue? Get a ton of federal agents, march on the border, arrest all obstructing Texas shitheads and beat them down with the book. Make examples out of them.
Read the wiki article on the standoff in Waco, TX, which happened under Clinton. It would be a larger version of that.
The only thing Ken Paxton should be defending in court is himself for securities fraud.
Revoke all federal funding until they comply
fund THIS
Just arrest all these fuckers, starting with the Texas Governor.
“Now stop it or we’ll send another sternly-worded letter!”
Arrest the guy for obstructing federal agencies. Then send another strongly worded letter to everyone else.
If they still refuse… arrest them too.
That would be nice, wouldn’t it?
Just start the civil war already, jeeze.
It is difficult to imagine how enforcing constitutionally-enshrined federal law will spark a civil war.
Unless you mean these assholes are traitors. At which point it becomes even more important to enforce the rule of law and yeet them out of government.
You really don’t want that. You might not realise it now, but even if we win, those of us left will gaze at the ashes under which we buried our friends and family, and wish it hadn’t happened.
Nah. Humans have driven 70% of all species to extinction. There’s no species worth saving with that kind of track record. Hopefully earth will find harmony thousands or millions of years after we’re gone!
If that’s your take, then consider that you’re talking about a civil war and it won’t destroy our species, maybe not even our country, but it’ll damage the planet a lot more than we already have.
War isn’t good for anyone. Not us, not other animals, not the planet. Not now, not in the long-term. You only wish for it because you haven’t seen it, or the aftermath, and don’t know what it’s like.
It’s just another piece of the polycrisis we’re heading towards, with the main force of instability being the climate tipping points we’ve started and continue to trigger.
Check out the limits to growth if you’re interested.
Man, you’re all over the map. First it’s civil war, now you want to talk about the climate. Finish the topic in front of you, I’m just responding to what you’re saying.
Republicans: We need stronger border protections!
DHS: Here’s increased BPD funding and facility modernization efforts.
Republicans: No. Only death.
Time to recolonize Texas, send in the settlers.
Just give it back to Mexico. When the Texans try to immigrate into the US, nudge them into the nearest river.
Wait no! Some of us want out!
…so arrest it.
Is it so hard to ask for a President that Respects the Rule Of Law? If poor people did this they would be in jail! A Politician does this and gets a sternly worded letter!
We need another Waco
everything is now a state by state issue regardless of federal anyway - medical and other insurances such as vehicle policies, what health care you are allowed to receive, wages, how the justice system works, cannabis, food assistance, etcetera
if the federal government wants it otherwise we should have a federal set of laws we all have to live by no matter the state line we cross
biden is barking up the wrong tree seeing as how he is a state’s rights supporter
Keep in mind that you can add “but states rights” to any situation. Sadly, that’s part of the US religion and people will defend their ability to treat their own residents horridly.
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Is it really? How about we cut off ALL federal aid and services?
I can’t believe you actually said we should have fed laws. You must be a troll.
states in the end decide if they want federal aid and services such as SNAP
US lets the states decide because it has devolved into a state’s right over federal country
That’s not what you said.
You said there should be federal laws. There are. Try taking pot across state lines via airplane and see if you get caught and which laws you get charged under.
depends on the state lines you cross and how that state or now city feels about it
some cities in the US are half illegal and half recreational and or medical so sometimes it is a half of the city line
the states also decide if they want to use federal or state laws when convicting not the federal government
anyone who has extensively travelled the US will see past the HOA looking veil
federal laws have devolved into something that allows states full control
