Texas National Guard Blocking Feds From Getting to Border, US DOJ Alleges : worldnews

[-] coffee_poops@sh.itjust.works 76 points 7 months ago

So arrest the guardsmen

[+] vexikron@lemmy.zip -22 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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[-] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 36 points 7 months ago

Let them. They’ll starve within the month.

[-] PapaStevesy@midwest.social 21 points 7 months ago

Good riddance.

[-] Shiggles@sh.itjust.works 11 points 7 months ago

So we glass the governor’s private residence and finish what reconstruction failed to do a century ago. The armed and “well regulated” militia is on the highest copium possible thinking an ar-15 is anything the government fears.

[-] Psychodelic@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

Don't tempt me with a good time

[-] ira@lemmy.ml 8 points 7 months ago

It was already a deadly situation. Or are you saying that drowning migrants are more acceptable.

[-] vexikron@lemmy.zip 2 points 7 months ago

No, I am just pointing out a likely/possible outcome of pursuing a possible course of action.

[-] ramble81@lemm.ee 6 points 7 months ago

Texas will never secede. Some Texans may try to secede and we’ll have another Brach Dividian, but the state will still stay in the union.

Source: am Texan.

[-] vexikron@lemmy.zip 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Thats what I am talking about. Of course it would not in the long run 'work' or 'make sense', but it would be essentially Waco 2.0, with the potential this time to embolden various other armed and dumb and violent right wingers all around the country, of which there are more, and they are more extreme and angry than during the Militia Movement 90s.

I grew up with a dad whose politics were heavily shaped by Ruby Ridge in WA.

While that situation was obviously a use of an absurd amount of force and arguably entrapment, such people like my dad now spend their days manufacturing/assembling illegal firearms in their garage, as they blather on about how Antifa did Jan 6th and Tom Hank's son kills rapes and eats babies for their adrenochrome, and i strongly get the impression there are a lot of similarly extreme and delusional people doing similar illegal dangerous nonsense all around America.

Powder keg.

[-] philpo@feddit.de 5 points 7 months ago

So the federal government backs down every time a state now threatens it? Or some nutjobs within that state threaten to secede?

I might remember some things in the south differently...

[-] explodicle@local106.com 1 points 7 months ago

Just chiming in to agree with everyone else here... Not gonna fight to keep Texas.

[-] gregorum@lemm.ee 65 points 7 months ago

how is this not blatantly obstruction of justice?

[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 7 points 7 months ago

Republicans: ThE fOunDeRs DiDn'T mEaN LitErALlY oBsTrUct! bLoCkInG tHe FeDs iS oK aNd CoOl!

[-] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 28 points 7 months ago

Send a tank regiment sown there and be like, you’re blocking what now?

[-] DigitalTraveler42@lemmy.world 25 points 7 months ago

I like your energy but highly unconstitutional and a bit of overkill.

Realistically what they need to do is start arresting the Texas national guard leadership, that'll take them down a notch, no leadership, no coordination, no more opposition.

[-] PseudoSpock@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 7 months ago

Sounds like an act of civil war. Spank them... spank them hard, daddy.

[-] Misconduct@lemmy.world -2 points 7 months ago

Honestly this. Let them "rise up" and see how American they feel against the rest of the US army... Assuming the army doesn't turn on us too. Ya never know these days eh 🙃

[-] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 10 points 7 months ago

How old is America now?

[-] AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

The USA declared independence in 1776. The actual government they have today formed a few years after. Not entirely sure when the Mexican government we know today formed. The North and Southern American contents have been there since pangea broke up.

[-] doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 7 months ago

Roughly 200-250 years depending on whether you start counting at declaration of independence, articles of confederation, or ratification of the constitution.

[-] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 9 points 7 months ago

[-] dRLY@lemmy.ml 8 points 7 months ago

Seeing how history repeating itself is doing so from multiple centuries at one time. If you are a leftist, then you NEED to be arming yourself and making efforts to join orgs/groups of comrades. The far-right and the constantly enabling centrists are doing the same song and dance done before the Civil War and all of the Red Scares. They don't wish to fight the rich elites/capitalists that profit from the constant repeating of history and gaslighting the masses. They are going to welcome fascism as their methods of keeping power. It is the centrists/moderates that allowed Nazi Germany to happen. It is the centrists/moderates that allowed slavery and segregation to stay around. They are what allowed child labour and complete disregard for workers' safety and health to continue. They want you to just ignore it all and tune-out (unless it serves them to call attention for their political theatre). We keep us safe!

[-] BobGnarley@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

The problem is most leftists don't like guns so joining an org wouldnt be very effective from a defense standpoint

[-] SuddenlyBlowGreen@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Eh, you don't need a gun necessarily to help out, see Desmond Doss.

[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 5 points 7 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The federal government alleged that Texas state officials also erected new fencing farther inland.

"That fencing further restricts Border Patrol's ability to reach the river in particular areas," the Justice Department said in the filing.

The government said that before Wednesday evening, Border Patrol agents could drive trucks with mounted surveillance equipment to various locations in this area and that those trucks were used "to maintain visibility and awareness of activity along this stretch of the river and border."

"But the Texas National Guard has now blocked Border Patrol's access to the area, rendering its agents unable to place mobile surveillance trucks," the Justice Department said in the Friday filing.

The department said in the filing that the "new actions" by Texas "demonstrate an escalation of the State's measures to block Border Patrol's ability to patrol or even to surveil the border and be in a position to respond to emergencies."

The filing is part of a legal battle involving immigration enforcement at the border between the Biden administration and the Republican-controlled state.

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[-] PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago

It's a fight over fences. They'll either work it out or go to court.

[-] ook_the_librarian@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

I hope they're just being assholes. That's not unbelievable.

Part of me wonders what they are hiding. They've been pretty proud of atrocities at the border before. Again, I hope they're just being assholes.

[-] Gingerlegs@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Wow

[-] freagle@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 7 months ago

The balkanization begins...

[-] Oszilloraptor@feddit.de 3 points 7 months ago

What's the political motivation?

[-] SuiXi3D@kbin.social 11 points 7 months ago

Governor Hot Wheels hates Mexicans.

[-] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 8 points 7 months ago

Imagine if there was a station set up to load up buses and ship them up north. Imagine if you wanted to manufacture a border crisis.

[+] ChallengeApathy@infosec.pub -12 points 7 months ago

Sounds good to me. If the federal government isn't gonna do its job and protect our borders, it falls on the states to take up that mantle.

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