Texas Governor Greg Abbott has decided to play politics with the situation at the Texas border. He has ordered the Texas National Guard and state troopers to take over a park in Eagle Pass, and put up razor wire to stop immigrants. This has already resulted in the deaths of 3 immigrants (two of them children) as they denied Border Patrol entrance so they could try to save the people.
The Supreme Court has ruled that Texas must allow the Border Patrol to access the border and remove the razor wire. Abbott has refused, and continues to order the installation of the razor wire. He also continues to allow Border Patrol officers access to the border.
This amounts to sedition. No state has the right to ignore federal law or Supreme Court decisions about that law. Sadly, the Constitution doesn't mean much to today's Republican Party. Many Republicans in Washington have encouraged Abbott to continue his actions. And 25 Republicans governors have signed a statement backing Abbott's shameful, dangerous, and illegal actions.
The crazy part of this mess is that a bipartisan Senate bill could reach the Senate floor this week -- a bill that would solve the crisis at the border. But House Republicans, at the behest of Donald Trump, are saying they will refuse to pass the bill. It seems that Republicans want the border crisis to continue so they can keep playing politics with the issue.
Here is a list of the Republican governors supporting Abbott's illegal defiance of the Supreme Court:
- Governor Kay Ivey, Alabama
- Governor Mike Dunleavy, Alaska
- Governor Sarah Sanders, Arkansas
- Governor Ron DeSantis, Florida
- Governor Brian Kemp, Georgia
- Governor Brad Little, Idaho
- Governor Eric Holcomb, Indiana
- Governor Kim Reynolds, Iowa
- Governor Jeff Landry, Louisiana
- Governor Tate Reeves, Mississippi
- Governor Mike Parson, Missouri
- Governor Greg Gianforte, Montana
- Governor Jim Pillen, Nebraska
- Governor Joe Lombardo, Nevada
- Governor Chris Sununu, New Hampshire
- Governor Doug Burgum, North Dakota
- Governor Mike DeWine, Ohio
- Governor Kevin Stitt, Oklahoma
- Governor Henry McMaster, South Carolina
- Governor Kristi Noem, South Dakota
- Governor Bill Lee, Tennessee
- Governor Spencer Cox, Utah
- Governor Glenn Youngkin, Virginia
- Governor Jim Justice, West Virginia
- Governor Mark Gordon, Wyoming
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