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 ...
“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.“
The response to the chaos that the demon party has created FOR ALL OF AMERICA is ITSELF chaos!? They are the purest un-adulterated Evil. They are Biblical Evil.
One might be forgiven for thinking fifty years ago that “1984” was in spots exaggerated but it wasn’t and isn’t. The human evil idiocy was simply described as it is .
Josef Manchin.
He’s such a good commie.
I’m wondering if a NG soldier can say that they signed up to protect their state, not aid in it’s invasion.
The Supreme Court of 2024 rivals the 1857 Supreme Court for infamy, and Roberts rivals Roger Taney.
Really? Where Taney ruled that blacks were essentially property and not citizens?
Let’s see if Americans will do anything they are ordered to do?
Even if it’s an unlawful order.
We know Border Patrol will.
How about you start, by telling Biden not to defy the Supreme Court ruling, that he cannot cancel student debt. But, he does anyway.
Texas also has an armed State Guard and Navy not controlled by Washington.
Absolutely, Posse.
“Biden would send the Texas NG to Iraq, Syria, and Gaza leaving zero Guard in Texas.“
Really. Simple. Gin up a conflict somewhere and accuse TX of some kind of treason or other. Sounds exactly their speed.
Of course. Fundamental to all of them is a serious moral and intellectual confusion.
Are they cutting it just enough to make arrests or to save people from drowning ? It is hard to comment and not look like an idiot without knowing all the facts>
Or rather: Fundamental to their seriously misguided decisions is a serious moral and intellectual confusion.
We know most of the countries to our south are corrupt to a great extent, but Americans need to realize that level of corruption doesn’t stop at the border. The cartels are making $billions, and buying influence and protection is just the cost of doing business. All levels of government have been corrupted, and nothing will change until this has been addressed. The big question is, “Who will clean up this mess?”
I miss the 80s.
The Texas State Guard minor scandal of the 1980s.
“One Texas State Guard battalion led by Robert Holloway, a former Vietnam Green Beret who had served as a mercenary for the white supremacist regime in Rhodesia, was disbanded for being too “gung_ho”_abandoning the standard green uniform for camouflage fatigues and engaging in search_and_destroy training, outside the group’s formal regulations. Ironically, the unit’s activities came to light after it was praised in an article in Soldier of Fortune magazine.”
It’s unlikely in the extreme that the Biden Administration is going to declare a national emergency on the illegal invasion of the southern border; this administration has spent three years denying that there is any such emergency.
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This.
Abbott made a compelling constitutional case. Before Biden can do anything, and especially since Texas was sued, this should go through the courts. In the meantime, Abbott’s actions should stand.
I knew someone would bring it up before me.
Representative Joaquin Castro (D-TX)
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