Posted on 05/19/2021 6:27:29 PM PDT by David Treibs
How a Texas governor should close the border.
There's only one way to do it successfully, and that is by force.
We need to tell the feds to shut down the border, or we will. Maybe give them a few days, just enough time to mobilize our National Guard, DPS, State Guard and whatever other forces we can muster.
We take our tanks, armored personnel carriers, etc to the border crossing centers, and tell them close it or we will. If they don't--and they surely won't--we seize them by military force and close the border.
If we can't cull out the illegal aliens from commercial traffic, we just shut down the whole thing.
We finish the wall, and defend it.
We authorize US citizens to use deadly force when necessary to help us close the border along its entire length. We use aircraft (helicopter gunships, etc) with guns to shoot anyone crossing who can't be stopped by other means.
Naturally, it won't take much force to convince those on the other side of the border to not try to cross. They will understand the message quickly, and there will be very little further traffic.
As for the illegal aliens who are already stashed here in various places, we round up a bunch of nice buses equipped with restrooms, and we load them all at gun point, and ship them back to the border. We can pay Mexico to ship them back to their countries of origin.
As for the federal judiciary, which will surely object to this and the other things we need to do, we can tell them what we should have told them to do back in 1973: go pound sand; we will uphold the Texas and US Constitutions, and y'all can go jump, and take your unconstitutional opinions with you.
The courts are not the supreme law of the land, the Constitution is, and these out of control courts just need to be ignored.
Then we can begin enforcing our laws against abortion again. See how simple that is? We don't have to wait 40 years and watch 60 million Americans be slaughtered in the process, while we ask them, pretty please, will you stop killing babies?--we just do it. If the Supreme Court doesn't like it, they can send their army. Wait, they don't have an army. So why do we quake in our boots at their opinions? Maybe John Roberts can come here and shake a stick at us.
Declaring our state a Second Amendment sanctuary is good, but we need to be clear what that entails.
When Dictator Biden decides to confiscate our guns, or trys to tell us to register them or surrender them, we can tell him to bug off, and that we will use whatever force is necessary to defend our rights, our state, and our people. If they surround some citizen, we surround them, and give them a chance to leave, maybe 60 seconds. ...
As for one of the means that the communist Chinese and Democrats used to seize the Presidential election, the electronic voting machines, they need to be removed from our state. If we can't do it nicely, we have in our national history a tea party were we dealt with other things that needed to be removed. Nothing says we can't have another one, if it becomes necessary. If we want only real votes to be counted, as opposed to millions of fake ballots and flipped results, we have no choice.
All that I see Abbott doing is the same thing the Republicans did while Obama was President: feign hand wringing and act like they were terribly opposed to what was happening, because their hands were supposedly tied. But, the truth came out when the Republicans had all 3 branches of government, and they did nothing, and stopped those like Trump who actually tried to do something. Well, time for "nothing" to come to an end.
We need a governor who will do something besides ask the feds to do their job. They won't. The people who stole the election did it right in front of our faces, and dared us to do anything. So far, we've done nothing, except for some Republican candidates who ask for more donations. Do you think those people are suddenly going to start defending the Constitution? Don't be delusional. Now they are screaming loudly against anyone who talks about taking it back.
Either we take back Texas, and use that as a stepping stone to take back the USA, or we will slide irreversibly into a bloody, communist dictatorship, thanks, in part, to the gutless and visionless people on our side. Either we fight and win, or the communist coup that occurred in November will be permanent. There can be no stopping point except victory.
Texas hasn’t had a Gov with the balls to do this since......?
A long time.
“How long would it take for the Harris/Biden junta to deploy the National Guard (of soldiers from Ft Bliss) down there to thwart the Governor’s plan?”
An interesting question. Biden would have to “federalize” them. And , if I’m not mistaken, the Governor would have to agree to it.
L
Yep.
Our congresscritters should have stopped this but were either on board or didn't have the courage to do the right thing.
But, in the end, it was our responsibility and we did nothing.
Perhaps I’ll throw my hat into the ring....but I’m far from politically correct.
Have gun. Will travel.
In all fairness, before you start estimating your needs for this, do a terrain analysis. It radically reduces waste and increases effectiveness where deployments would help.
Other things that could be a big help. Create a “tiered” border, where the federal border (or absence of one) is just the first border. Then use eminent domain for a ‘hard’ state border.
And then a “soft” border of Blue Agave and Cholla “jumping” Cactus. This is a mean combo of desert cacti.
When Cholla attacks:
https://i.imgur.com/aIZTmsf.jpg
Yes, the Texas National Guard and Texas Navy should be dispatched along the Rio Grande for guard duty as contractors build the damn wall (and fence and if possible electric fence).
All Texas has to do is refuse to cooperate across the board with the Federal government, just as the liberal states do on illegal immigration. Without the state’s cooperation (through counties), think how difficult it would be for the IRS to foreclose on a tax lien. How many federal warrants are enforced with or by local law enforcement? Just end it all and see what happens.
Need a new Sam Houston. Such actions would be interrupted as succession and treason. Need more states to follow Texas and form a New CSA—Not on Slavery but the letter of the Constitution. The Constitutional States of America. It will start now or in a year from now. Break up the old states and make new ones. Start with a new Convention to Draft a new Declaration of Independence.
All members of the Armed Forces...including National Guard and Reserves...are under the direct command of the President.
Our TX STATE GUARD, THE TX NAVY & our RANGER SERVICE are NOT “federalize-able”.
ImVho, what we NEED to do is REFORM the old RANGER FRONTIER BATTALION & then the Governor should simply tell the Ranger CPT, Commanding to “Clean up the border area.”
I, for just ONE Texican, would rush to the border area to volunteer to help our Rangers. - TRUST ME, IF the call goes out for volunteers, Texans will RUSH to help our Rangers.
(Even at 74, I can operate a radio station, prepare/serve food/drinks, guard detainees & any number of other NON-LEO tasks to free Rangers to enforce TEXAS LAW.)
yours, ex-cadet
USA, Retired
I believe it was the 101st Airborne that was used, not the National Guard. And even if that happened the Governor could call out the Militia which can’t be federalize.
L
We finish the wall, and defend it.
We use aircraft (helicopter gunships, etc) with guns to shoot anyone crossing who can't be stopped by other means.
How much have you budgeted to do this over 1,200 miles of border?
Since Texas doesn't have an income tax I'm guessing property and sales taxes are going to be pretty steep.
What would happen if Oklahoma invaded Texas? Would the state be able to defend itself without help from the feds?
Abbott has yet to really show leadership in anything. He is rather worthless as a leader. Desantos needs to show how m how its done. Florida is the real leader now.
In the 1950s when Arkansas governor Orville Faunus sought to prevent integration of Little Rock schools, Eisenhower federalized the national guard and enforced the law. The children walked into the school between lines of armed troops.
FYI, I’m old enough to remember that incident VERY WELL INDEED.
(Our family at that time lived within 60 miles of the Arkansas/Texas border & we were PROUD of the National Guard troops.)
I also remember a “little tiny Black girlchild” (I suspect that she was in the First or second Grade then.) walking between some 4-5 LARGE, MUSCULAR, Deputy US Marshals, so that she could attend public school.
Yours, ex-cadet
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