Do you consider fighting to close the border to be an act of defending the union?

[SolitarySolace]

So far, Florida, Virginia, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Montana and Georgia have all sided with Texas to keep the border closed. So you consider this an act of protecting the union? The same Union Abraham Lincoln saved?

Yes

No

[Anonymous]

There are lot of things wrong with what the Feds are doing in Texas out of their desire to flood the country with cheap labor and dependent votes.

1: Legally speaking the arbitrary power to steal state & private land and nullify the effect of laws there of is asking for corruption and abuse. There is a reason Congress is required to get consent of the State legislator in Article 1 Section 8 Clause 17 before taking state property for their own federal use.

2: The invasion of not only colonist but effectively open access of the same criminal drug cartels running free in Northern Mexico is a major threat to the peace and security of the border state, and the prosperity of all other states.
With this effectively open border when the drug cartel shows up to a border town and offers silver or lead.

Theses local officials know if they don't take the silver and call for help from the State. The cartel can simply run back to their refuge in Mexico and return thou the open border to deliver the lead the same state goes to help someone else.

The inability to go after theses guys in Mexico puts border towns in a indefensible long term position.

3: Those millions of new unskilled labor living here at our expense are driving up the cost of everything we buy and down the viability of our wages.

Our rich elite might like the cheap labor and reliable dependent support of this new underclass but normal American's can't afford it and the young Americans they are competeteing with for houses and Jobs are being forced to delay starting their life beyond even their reproductive years just to earn enough to afford to do so.

[WindAtMyBack]

ALL nations have to defend their borders.

They need to populate the land. They need some sort of governance. And they need to defend their territory. If they don't do all three of those things, they won't have a nation for long.

This has been true throughout history.

[Phoenix98]

It is an act of defending the country and it's people, the government is just letting these people waltz's in we have no idea who they are, where they come from or what their intentions are and because of the open boarder drugs and sex trafficker's, cartel members are flooding into the country. And what's worse is they are letting our own citizens starve, are taking away their lands and areas and letting peoples communities rot while they give these people sometimes an upwards of 9,000$ a month, as well as food and free housing while actual citizens barely have money to buy groceries or pay their bills... seriously how is that right?

Normally in a situation like this Texas would contact the federal government for help n aid but in case it's the federal government that's the problem so they have no choice but to take things into their own hands because the people in power in DC are the issue and are doing nothing to help or solve the problem.

I am so fucking tired of what the government has been doing the last few years, I tried to tell people this would happen but no one would listen. And it's gotten to the point where we have to do their job because they're either to incompetent or retarded to fix it themselves or are the ones making the problems in the first place.

[exitseven]

Yes, In New Hampshire 80 percent of people polled said they considered illegal immigration the biggest problem in America today. I imagine a great majority of the rest of the country feels the same way. This issue can be dumped right on the White House lawn. It is 100% Bidens fault from day one. He owns this crisis and hopefully the nation will be rid of this criminal in November

[DextroShade]

It is supposed to be federal government's responsibility to defend the border, but considering the Biden administration has not only abandoned that responsibility but is aiding and abetting the invasion Texas and the other states are justified in defending the border themselves. Biden and everyone in his administration are traitors and they should be facing the gallows.

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

Homeland Security should really just doing their job at least halfway competently. It's been a complete disaster under the Biden admin with Mayorkas. Texas is just picking up the slack for what Homeland Security is completely failing at doing to my understanding.

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

just start doing

[Telekinetic-Potato]

Like I said when Obama was running the second time, this country is fucked. There is simply too much corruption in the government and not enough people are willing to give up their lives or freedom to physically remove the bad actors.

[gorydetails]

Since Biden is hell bent on destroying the country, I'm glad the states are starting to exercise their rights.

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

Protect your border. Something my country refuses to do.

[OddBeMe]

I don’t see what we’re defending from. Stsrving children?