Honest question: Why wasn’t this done weeks or even months ago?
Rick Perry should have done this when GW Bush left the border wide open after 9/11
Shhh. We’re supposed to lower our expectations and praise Abbott.
Don’t get too over-joyous.
Watch Biden nationalize these National Guard troops like
Kennedy did when George Wallace was trying to use them.
His handlers won’t let time sit and do nothing.
Of course the media will jump up and down about how mean
Abbott is, and what a humanitarian Biden is.
Part of the problem is that when the governor of the state activates the National Guard, in most cases the Feds can then place the Guard under Federal command and take them away from the Governor, so that’s a legal challenge to try to overcome. It also takes time to get funds for, assemble, and train then deputize forces - remember, the Guard is normally trained to break things and kill people, not arrest them. You can’t just wave a wand and make it happen in an acceptable fashion in seconds. Logistics *is* a thing.
This is over and above any political machinations or weaknesses that may or may not have been involved.
Things must be really bad for Abbott to FINALLY do something other than talk.
Excellent question, CO.
This should have been done a long time ago.
Before we hustled disease-ridden people to God knows where in the dead of the night.