OK I’m just trying to note some thing as an outside observer reading, your post says denied access by soldiers, but the article says “Texas officers took over…”
It suggests Texas officers are those who blocked BP, are the officers peace officers or military officers?
from my understanding, it was national guard. basically a state militia of part-time troops, they're normally used in emergencies and disasters, but some have been posted overseas in the last 20 years.
Over half of the troops that served in Iraq and Afghanistan were National Guard. In Iraq alone, NG personnel accounted for over 18 percent of our casualties. In WWII, 18 of our divisions were NG. Their role as a reserve component is beyond the old state militia system.
I don't understand how ordering someone under your command to commit actions in violation of Federal law is not, in fact, a Federal crime subject to full-on arrest and prosecution.
But yes, the Governor of each state has authority over that state’s national guard, unless they’ve been called up to serve federally (like when NG units deploy overseas).
At what point do we realize that shaking our heads and cawing on autopilot "The cruelty is the point!" no longer meets the danger the soul of our nation faces? Our smug self-righteousness does nothing but normalize the immorality and horror of modern GOP politics!
Even assuming the soldiers are the national guard, isn’t border patrol a federal institution that outranks orders from a state government in jurisdiction of the border?
It's not clear from the article whether it's the Texas National Guard, who are basically federal troops (who aren't military as their day job) but for the weird law around it, and the Texas state guard, which is complete amateurs.
Abbott called out the state guard when there was that fucking idiocy about some special forces exercise that was hyped up to be an Obama coup with Walmart apparently being the new camps or something. They'd be a joke against a military but it doesn't take any training to bully around immigrants.
5th circuit is who made the situation untenable, but my understanding is that it’s mostly national guard with a sprinkling of cops doing the actual dirty work.
It doesn’t though. Call them up and deploy to basically anywhere. We literally rely on the national guard for everything we do overseas. The state has control when we aren’t using them, but we train them, we equip them, we pay them. If we want them for basically anything they have to go.
Yea, I am aware that the Prez _can_ order the National Guard. But it is a bit more involved than sending regular troops abroad, politically and practically.
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It suggests Texas officers are those who blocked BP, are the officers peace officers or military officers?