Posted on 01/24/2024 8:50:43 PM PST by chickenlips
On Wednesday, Representative Joaquin Castro (D-TX) called on President Biden to "seize" the Texas National Guard by calling them into Federal service, removing them from the command and control of the State of Texas. This is presumably in response to Texas Governor Greg Abbott's defiant tone towards the Biden Administration on closing the border.
A Texas congressman has urged President Biden to take the state's National Guard under federal control if Republican Governor Greg Abbott defies a Supreme Court ruling allowing federal agents to remove razor wire from a section of the U.S.-Mexico border.
The call was made by Democratic Representative Joaquin Castro after Abbott posted on X, formerly Twitter, saying the Texas National Guard would continue to "hold the line in Eagle's Pass," a popular migrant crossing point, stating: "Texas will not back down from our efforts to secure the border in Biden's absence."
Castro re-shared Abbott's post on his own X account, adding: "Governor Greg Abbott is using the Texas National Guard to obstruct and create chaos at the border.
As of this writing, there has been no action on this by the Biden Administration.
This idea by Rep. Castro raises some interesting questions:
1) Were the President to activate the Texas National Guard under Title 10, what would their orders be? To assist federal officers in throwing open the gates?
2)What happens if members of the Texas National Guard refuse activation and instead continue to follow the orders of TX-ANG officers and Governor Abbott?
3)What if the Texas Guard splits, and former comrades end up facing each other across that red line?
4)If the Pentagon sends federal troops... SNIP>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...
Is he related to Fidel? What a fayg.
“Jose Manchin”
From what I understand the FED can remove razor wire.
That is about all it is.
TX can do whatever they are doing in the vein of the Texas Constitution.
Good Times for all.
Guess what, Joe? Texas has F-15s. :)
These commies really want a civil war, don’t they?
If I was Abbott I’d tear down the razor wire and up up concertina wire ;-) Maybe string some electric fence, dig trenches and fill them with scorpions, bring in all the old tires I could find and light them on fire...lots of things to do that would keep Crooked Joe flailing away.
LOL !!!
I can’t remember if it’s Julio or his brother Joaquin Castro who’s a communist faggot.
Probably both.
Correct. The Border Patrol has unlimited access and freedom to the border.
Problem for them: How do they get to the border?
US and Texas law is quite clear. They can only trespass.
Concertina wire is razor wire.
Congress has to power to raise armies, and to keep them on federal property and territory.
Congress has the power to “make rules concerning captures on land and water”.
“Congress shall have power to...establish an uniform rule of naturalization.”
States clearly retain the right and power to expel foreigners on their territory not in federal custody as per congressional rules, even those with bona fide asylum claims.
Section 502 of Title 32, U.S. Code, provides the authority for the Secretary of the Army and the Secretary of the Air Force to call National Guard units to active duty under Title 32 status for training purposes. It also permits individual members to be called to active duty to perform training “or other duty in addition to” the mandatory training described earlier in Section 502.
Title 32 authority under Section 502(f) was also used for Operation Jump Start and Operation Phalanx, discussed above.
Although National Guard members did not engage in direct law enforcement activities during these two border security operations, it is possible that states might consider giving them that authority in future operations.
As a matter of statute, other duty under Section 502(f) may also include “homeland defense activities.”
Such activities are statutorily defined to mean activities undertaken for the military protection of the territory or domestic population of the United States, or of infrastructure or other assets of the United States determined by the Secretary of Defense as being critical to national security, from a threat or aggression against the United States.
https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/LSB/LSB10121
How high can razor wire be stacked? 2 - 3 stories high should take some time. No reason to quit stacking just because someone is cutting.
Nope, but his mother started LA RAZA, actively supported Angel Davis and he and his twin brother are “bastards, since his parents were never married and she raised those boys on her own; the father was out of the picture.
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