President Biden Urged to Seize Texas National Guard - Joe Manchin Calls for National Emergency

ReD State ^ | Jan. 24, 2024 | Ward Clark

[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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

[Elsie]

...and LOTS of tanks!

[Elsie]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GEe0vsFXIAAuXDh.jpg:large

[OKSooner]

How is Manchin jumping out in front of this

Just axin’, mind you. It’s about like him.

[bert]

Abbot should Deputize all the Texas Nationsl Guard as Texas Rangers given free reign to repel the invaders.

Lots of blood in the river will stop the invasion

[Elsie]

Back in the day...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri_Executive_Order_44

[bert]

Rifles and blood in the river are the solution

[Elsie]

Can you say...

Bitch Slap?

[1Old Pro]

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.

So Castro doesn't believe we CURRENTLY HAVE CHAOS?

[Elsie]

Yes, they did!

[Elsie]

Just need a connection between here and the razor wire.

[Elsie]

The Framers never anticipated the Gov’t would violate its own laws.

I beg to differ:

 

 

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,

 that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,

 that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--

 

That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men,

 deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --

 

That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends,

 it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government,

 laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form,

 as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

 

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes;

 and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable,

 than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

 

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design

 to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government,

 and to provide new Guards for their future security.--

 

Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies;

 and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.

 

The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations,

 all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.

 

To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

 

 

[Jim W N]

The Federal Government is in direct violation of THE CONSTITUTION:

The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion.

U.S.Const., Art. IV, Sec. 4.

Unconstitutional federal Court actions or decisions (here), acts and laws MUST be defied!!!

The easiest of the three to defy is Court decisions because the Court has no enforcement power.

I'll add, TEXAS and GOV. ABBOTT: STOP taking federal funding and become financially INDEPENDENT from the bankrupt feds. Your constitutionally sovereign state is meant to be INDEPENDENT!!!

[Elsie]

Since when have FReepers ever needed all the facts?

FACTS??

We don't need no steenkin' FACTS!

[Elsie]

We thought you wuz a T o a d!

[unread]

"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."

Napalm, don't forget the napalm..

[sport]

I’m with Elsie.

[alstewartfan]

Hey West Virginians, how stupid are you to vote for both Trump and Chairman Mao Manchin? Anyone who has done this is an imbecile.

[alstewartfan]

Two Communist coward hacks in black, closer in philosophy to Castro than Washington.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

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[RetiredArmy]

Texas sidewinders would be better.