A clash between Texas and the Biden administration over who controls the Texas-Mexico border continues to escalate this week as federal officials once again demanded the state give Border Patrol agents access to a park that is a popular corridor for migrants to enter the United States illegally.
This comes in response to a recent Supreme Court decision, where the court allowed federal officials to dismantle a wire barrier along the border, prompting a legal battle initiated by Texas. Texas argued that this action, aimed at aiding migrants, infringes on state sovereignty and damages Texas security measures.
In response to this decision, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott released a letter arguing that Texas has a right to control the border and that it supersedes federal government control. Abbottās accusation that the federal government has breached the Constitution by having ābroken the compact between the United States and the Statesā is almost identical to South Carolinaās 1860 declaration of secession.
Furthermore, Abbottās letter espouses the fringe theory of constitutional law known as ācompact theory,ā popularized by Confederate states during the Civil War era and supported by Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
While I do agree that people tend to ignore the ānormalā people who wil lbe impacted by this: The reason many of those wealthy individuals are wealthy exists in other states. If they are given the ultimatum of āGet the fuck back in the US or we are claiming spacexā then they very rapidly are āpunishedā.
That said: the āTexas is really purpleā argument holds a lot less water than people tend to claim. Ever since 2020 (really before it, but that was the big push) there has been a strong push for ādemocratsā to move to Texas. Becauseā¦ it is so much cheaper because they arenāt paying for social infrastructure and they get a lot of the NIMBY benefits while pretending they are āgood peopleā. LOTS of DINOs. They might not be full alt-right magats but there is a reason that the blatant gerrymandering and voter disenfranchisement doesnāt have much pushback.
That isnāt to say that there arenāt large numbers of people in Houston and the like who just have no mobility and are increasingly worried they will literally become slaves. But also understand that places like Austin would very much vote for a āmoderate Bush-era republicanā if the option arose.
Sure, that hurts Elon Musk. I would be interested to know how many of the Republican politicians in red states actually have a majority of their wealth and assets in blue states. Sanctions have to hurt the people in control of the red state governments to even be worthwhile.
Iām not convinced this disqualifies them from our sympathy if a hypothetical secession attempt by their state government causes them undue misery. Iāve been looking into people moving to Texas.
This is one of the articles I found. It seems like most of the people moving to Texas are going to vote Republican. I would like to read the articles youāve seen on the topic as I couldnāt find much on Democrats moving to Texas other than this one. At the end it mentions one family moved to Austin and they seem progressive. Itās an interesting demographic shift regardless.
Again I donāt have a lot knowledge about Democrats in Texas. It seems like if that were true they would run some neo-conservatives that were like Bush. These are the candidates that the Democratic Party is fielding against Ted Cruz in Texas.
They seem progressive, on the surface anyway. Especially this guy:
I would interested to read any polling date or news articles youāve seen about it to be more informed on this.