The Supreme Court Has Itself to Blame for Texas Defying Its Orders
Ulysses S. Grant once said that the Confederate cause, the defense of chattel slavery, was “one of the worst for which a people ever fought, and one for which there was the least excuse.” Texas’s embrace of neo-secessionist rhetoric in defense of letting children drown in the Rio Grande belongs somewhere on that same list.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott is with the Biden administration over immigration. One of them involves Abbott to set up razor wire and floating barriers in an effort to deter migrants. The that those barriers have also blocked the Border Patrol from being able to arrest and process migrants in accordance with federal law. Earlier this month, a in the Rio Grande, the river that runs along the border with Mexico. A short time later, when the Border Patrol was alerted to two other migrants in distress, National Guardsmen reportedly from reaching them. In 2023, the that a Department of Public Safety trooper wrote to his supervisor that officers were told “to push small children and
