January 25, 2024
Is Eagle Pass, Texas, the new Fort Sumter? Probably not, but it’s still important.
By Andrea Widburg
What’s playing out on the Texas border is enormously consequential. It represents a stand-off between the states and the federal government in a way unseen in America since 1860. However, I don’t think we’re going to see a new Fort Sumter because the federal government is clearly in the wrong and because people across America hate what the Biden administration is doing. Moreover, it was Biden himself who paved the way for ignoring the Supreme Court.
Here’s a super quick rundown of where we stood yesterday morning. Joe Biden, ignoring America’s sovereignty and its laws, opened the United States border. When Texas Governor Gregg Abbott tried, at Eagle Pass, to stem the flood of illegal aliens that is destroying communities across Southern Texas, Biden sent in the feds to resume his lawless conduct. Gov. Abbott sued to stop the feds and won in the district court and the Fifth Circuit, only to have two allegedly conservative Supreme Court justices join with the leftist minority to say, “Hold your horses. Keep the border open.”
That seemed as if it would be the status quo while the Supreme Court took its sweet time issuing a final ruling on whether the federal government can go completely rogue, ignoring sovereignty, laws, and national security, and leaving the states helpless against a foreign invasion. However, Greg Abbott, after two-and-a-half years of irritating passivity, seems to have drunk massive amounts of courage juice.
Yesterday afternoon, he issued a statement saying that he is under no obligation to stand aside while the federal government engages in lawless activity:
https://twitter.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/1750235544951349275more
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/01/is_eagle_pass_texas_the_new_fort_sumter_probably_not_but_its_still_important.html
