Not The Onion: Gov. Greg Abbott Lines Texas-New Mexico Border With Razor Wire

[Eugene]

Gov. Greg Abbott Lines Texas-New Mexico Border With Razor Wire

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced this week that the Texas National Guard is installing razor wire along the border of Texas and New Mexico on his orders. “Migrants are entering New Mexico illegally then crossing into Texas,” Abbott wrote on X. “We are stopping it.” The move represents an escalation in the governor’s multibillion-dollar efforts to repel immigrants from crossing into Texas, now targeted at New Mexico, which is governed by Michelle Lujan Grisham, a Democrat.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/gov-greg-abbott-lines-texas-new-mexico-border-with-razor-wire

[Xavier Breath]

1. I guess Interstate 10 west will be next, eh Greg?

[Walleye]

2. Um, in this country we call it a state line, not a border

[muriel_volestrangler]

27. The Texas Military Department says it's a border

The Texas Military Department said the newly installed razor wired north of downtown El Paso across from New Mexico's Sunland Park builds in the 18 miles of concertina wire the National Guard has laid on El Paso's border with Mexico.

"We are now fortifying the border between Texas and New Mexico to block migrants who are entering New Mexico illegally and then crossing into Texas," the Military Department said in an unsigned statement. "The effort in El Paso was bolstered by the recent deployment of the Texas Tactical Border Force to El Paso. The Texas National Guard remains focused on operations to prevent, deter, and interdict transnational criminal activity and illegal immigration along the border."

https://eu.caller.com/story/news/local/texas/state-bureau/2023/10/11/gov-greg-abbott-is-now-fortifying-texas-border-with-new-mexico/71141567007/

[Walleye]

37. Texas doesn't really want to be a part of the United States

[gab13by13]

3. His multi-billion dollar effort

can be beat by a 6 dollar pair of wire cutters.

[KarenS]

4. This man is criminally insane. n/t

[2naSalit]

5. +1

[brush]

24. Why would immigrants already in the US which is their goal...

want to move to Texas? Ya don't walk a thousand miles to the US to get to Texas.

[2naSalit]

6. That fucker...

Needs to be red flagged. He is not of sound mind and should not be holding office for anything.

[Emile]

7. At first I thought he now has a bus line to transport illegal

immigrants up north.

[usonian]

8. I at first thought you said Mexico

Well, isn't that special?

If it's not a stock photo, here's an image from the Daily Beast



The original article is at Caller Times, and I ain't going there.

[Eugene]

15. That's the Corpus Christi Caller Times, a Scripps newspaper and the newspaper of record there.

They also have a strict paywall.

[moonshinegnomie]

19. no paywall version

https://archive.ph/TJfhL

[bluestarone]

9. Worthless human beings

Absolute SCUM

[mzmolly]

10. Gee, didn't Trump 'secure the border'

already?

[usonian]

11. Most secure border ever. "I alone built it".

💩 💩 💩 💩 💩 💩 💩

[Elessar Zappa]

12. Good,

that’ll keep the crazy Texans out of my state (this is not directed to the wonderful Texas liberals).

[roamer65]

13. Razor wire to keep pregnant women in Texas.

That’s the real reason.

[Xolodno]

14. That boy aint right in the head...

If it goes through private land, you got a nice lawsuit. If it goes through Federal you now have Federal Environmental lawsuit.

[moonshinegnomie]

20. pretty much no federal land in texas

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

30. Except that the total acreage under federal control

Is the 17th largest in the nation. The nearly 3 million acres under federal control is larger than the total acreage of Delaware and Rhode Island, combined.

Not difficult to understand why, given that the feds are in charge of all of the following:

Bureau of Land Management

Cross Bar Special Recreation Management Area

US Forest Service

Angelina National Forest

Davy Crockett National Forest

Sabine National Forest

National Park Service

Alibates Flint Quarries *National* Monument

Amistad *National* Recreation Area

Big Bend *National* Park

Big Thicket *National* Preserve

Blackwell School *National* Historic Site

Chamizal *National* Memorial

Fort Davis *National* Historic Site

Guadalupe Mountains *National* Park

Lake Meredith *National* Recreation Area

LBJ *National* Historic Park

Padre Island *National* Seashore

Palo Alto Battlefield *National* Park

San Antonio Missions *National* Historic Site

Waco Mammoth *National* Historic Park

Military bases

Dyess AFB

Fort Bliss

Fort Cavazos

Goodfellow AFB

Joint Base San Antonio, consisting of: Camp Bullis, Fort Sam Houston, Lackland AFB and Randolph AFB

Laughlin AFB

NAS Corpus Christi

NAS Joint Reserve Fort Worth

NAS Kingsville

Sheppard AFB

== == == ==

[moonshinegnomie]

36. on a percentage basis teh feds only control 1.9% of texas

only 12 states have a lower percentage

and only 4 west of the mississippi

and very little of tha texas land is on the border
only big bend,chamizal and amistad

https://ballotpedia.org/Federal_land_ownership_by_state

[struggle4progress]

16. "Do not mistreat the foreigners among you in your land but treat them as your native-born and

love them as you love yourselves, for you were once foreigners in Egypt, and I am the Lord" -- Leviticus 19

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

31. Now read on to Leviticus 25:44-46

Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids. Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession. And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.

This is why it's not a good idea to quote the book to justify a position. Another, more horrifying, verse probably exists that negates it. And then some.

[stuck in the middle]

32. Accepting refuges and immigrants...

...is fundamental to Christianity here in America, from a historical point of view.

The goes back centuries.

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

34. Unless they were black

And brought here by force.

An immigrant is an immigrant, regardless of how they came here.

[stuck in the middle]

35. Holy Wars were fought over these issues.

(No offense to us keyboard warriors.)

Unless they were black
And brought here by force.

Invisibles: Las Guerrillas del Patía

(Audio-generated closed captions in the language of your choice.)

[struggle4progress]

17. "Do not neglect to offer hospitality to strangers, for by doing so

you may unknowingly nourish angels" -- Hebrews 13

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

33. Again, read the whole book

How's this for ways to treat a stranger:

Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon. And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil. But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us.

But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel. Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me. But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs.

Matthew 15:21-26

So apparently, it's all right to call a total stranger, a foreigner, a dog. To her face.

[stuck in the middle]

38. In the early 1700s, ...

...that became a major sticking point in negotiations between my wife's culture and the surrounding colonial culture (la cultura mayor).

"Do not neglect to offer hospitality to strangers, for by doing so you may unknowingly nourish angels" -- Hebrews 13

Her ancestors reached out to the church to secure a priest to do baptisms for their palenque, but kept the civil state at arm's length, even when offered a full pardon for all of their crimes (like running away from their masters, and cattle rustling, for example).

The sticking point in negotiations was apparently that the civil state wanted to take control of their ability to accept refuges.

(pages 104 - 106)

snip-------

Slaves also sought freedom extra-legally, and flight was typical across the Pacific lowlands. Some escaped slaves traveled as far as the cities while others formed maroon communities, or palenques, along the margins of the mining region. The most important palenque that was formed within the jurisdiction of Popayán was located east of the Pacific mines, in the Patía River Valley. This palenque was significant because it evolved into a town that, as we shall see in later chapters, was central to the royalist defense of Popayán during the wars of independence. Runaways settled in a place called "El Castigo," taking advantage of the frontier area around the Patía River Valley north of Pasto and east of Barbacoas, which was not colonized by the Spanish until the 1720s. By then, when exploration of the area and land titling began to take place, the palenque was populated mostly by renegade whites and runaway slaves from the mines of Barbacoas and Iscuandé and from the haciendas in the Cauca River Valley. During this period Spanish colonial officials unsuccessfully attempted to conquer or destroy this palenque.

Yet, as occured in the neighboring palenques of Esmeraldes and Baudó, and in other runaway communities in colonial contexts, the inhabitants of El Castigo sought the presense of representatives of the church in their territory. Between 1731 and 1732, they sent three messengers to the city of Pasto to request that a Priest visit Nachao and Nalgua, two towns they had established, each of which had built a church within its boundries. This request exposed their strategy of aligning their community with the Catholic precepts that were central to social and political life in Popayán.

The Quito Audiencia tried to take advantage of the maroons' interest in the church, attempting to co-opt the palenque into establishing civil government in the area in exchange for a pardon from the state. The runaway community resisted the audencia's attempt to include them within its juristiction (reducción) but succeeded in securing a permanent priest for their settlement. Morover, the Popayán municipal council conceeded their right to name two people from the palenque to "administer justice in the name of His Magisty to all the individuals who currently are congregated in those towns," with the condition that they not admit any more runaways to the community, detaining the fugitives and informing the Popayán authorities to their presence. Thus, the maroons of Patía not only used religion for the purpose of community building; they also seem to have preferred to establish a relationship with the church rather than with the civil authorities.

In the Hispanic context, the crown promoted a corporate organization of society, and thus collective rights could be secured to a greater extent than individual rights. This constituted an incentive for enslaved and free blacks to link their legal strategies to the colonial corporate logic. Indeed, the politics of freedom and community building among free people of African descent pivoted around the struggle to gain recognition, aquire political rights, and overcome racist assumptions of the larger society. During the eighteenth century, those goals coincided with the crown's interest in integrating the maroons into society - to "reduce" the community of runaways to legitimate towns - by negociating and extending certain concessions in exchage for their professed loyalty. The integration of free blacks in to civil life reminds us that maroon communities were forged within the colonial would and not outside it.

In Popayán, free and enslaved blacks of African origin and descent upheld justice through their underlying pattern of engagement with imperial legal institutions. This was visible in instances when, as in Patía, maroons negociated their conditions of integration into colonial society. Yet legal freedom was not the only goal of the enslaved. As we will see next, in the Pacific mining region, garnering greater rights within the institution of slavery may have been their most realistic goal.

snip-------

Indian and Slave Royalists in the Age of Revolution: Reform, Revolution, and Royalism in the Northern Andes, 1780–1825 (Cambridge Latin American Studies, Series Number 102)

by Marcela Echeverri

https://www.amazon.com/Indian-Slave-Royalists-Age-Revolution/dp/1107084148

[moonshinegnomie]

18. id love to see new mexico do the following

1) revoke the authority of texas police to arrest people in new mexico
2) once that is done drive from new mexico to the razor wire and destroy it
3) if a texas cop tries to stop you flee back to new mexico whee the texas cops can no longer arrest you


not a damn thing abbott could do about it

[Buns_of_Fire]

21. Remember, Greg, Oklahoma borders both states. Better wire that up, too. nt

[walkingman]

22. "Hot Wheels" is a disgusting human being.

[Initech]

23. Greg Abbott is a sick, bloodthirsty psychopath!

Fuck him and the people who vote for him. Also, fuck Fox News for escalating the "border crisis" hysteria. May they all rot in the hottest of hells.

[Skittles]

25. all Abbott and DeSantis do is perform for the sick cult

they do this while calling themselves "Christian"

[prodigitalson]

26. He can't prevent people from moving across state lines

priviliges and immunities clause

[sakabatou]

28. Cruelty is a feature, not a bug

[Norbert]

29. So if you are in New Mexico and the governor of Texas is an asshole sociopath

Why would you want to go to Texas?

[Buckeyeblue]

39. Texas likes to pretend to be a sovereign country

But how long would they really last as a nation? I guess the question is how long would they last before becoming a 3rd world nation?

[MayReasonRule]

40. Abbot's A Fascist Fool - - Concertina Cutters Are Widely Available

May the bird of paradise fly up his nose...

[GoCubsGo]

41. Well, if you didn't think he was a sociopath before this...

The guy is fucking sick in the head. And, so are the people who put him in office, and are letting him remain there.