The Department of Homeland Security had directed the state to stop blocking the U.S. Border Patrol’s access to roughly 2½ miles of the U.S.-Mexico border

Texas is refusing to comply with a cease-and-desist letter from the Biden administration over actions by the state that have impeded U.S. Border Patrol agents from accessing part of the border with Mexico.

In a letter to the Department of Homeland Security, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton rejected the Biden administration’s request for the state to “cease and desist” its takeover of Shelby Park, an epicenter of southwest border illegal immigration in Eagle Pass.

“Because the facts and law side with Texas, the State will continue utilizing its constitutional authority to defend her territory, and I will continue defending those lawful efforts in court,” Paxton wrote.

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        They’ve had their heads up their ass for so long that they think their farts are a lovely breeze of fresh air. Now they’re permanently grown into that position; like how your mom said if you tug at your face it’ll stay that way…

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          Right, we just wait until they invite a civil war, lose, and kill themselves when they realize they can’t win, meanwhile countless others suffer during the whole thing. Sounds great.

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            People who say violence is never the answer are literally the first people to be executed when violence comes to town.

            How did we solve world war 2? A monopoly on violence.

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      You really don’t want that. You might not realise it now, but even if we win, those of us left will gaze at the ashes under which we buried our friends and family, and wish it hadn’t happened.

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        Nah. Humans have driven 70% of all species to extinction. There’s no species worth saving with that kind of track record. Hopefully earth will find harmony thousands or millions of years after we’re gone!

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          If that’s your take, then consider that you’re talking about a civil war and it won’t destroy our species, maybe not even our country, but it’ll damage the planet a lot more than we already have.

          War isn’t good for anyone. Not us, not other animals, not the planet. Not now, not in the long-term. You only wish for it because you haven’t seen it, or the aftermath, and don’t know what it’s like.

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            It’s just another piece of the polycrisis we’re heading towards, with the main force of instability being the climate tipping points we’ve started and continue to trigger.

            Check out the limits to growth if you’re interested.

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              Man, you’re all over the map. First it’s civil war, now you want to talk about the climate. Finish the topic in front of you, I’m just responding to what you’re saying.

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                We are heading towards a polycrisis. Many crises simultaneously resulting in, hopefully, the downfall of human beings. America is a bullshit country that will probably have a civil war soon, adding to the polycrisis.

                The limits to growth is an analysis of economic and societal trends, that predicted we’re bound for catastrophe around the 2030s, and when it was revisited with updated data, found that we were not only on track for collapse, we were early on certain aspects, not even taking into consideration the climate.

                Check it out it’s an interesting read.

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                  I’m not disagreeing that this is happening. You are off topic. You wished for war, war is horror, it will bring untold suffering and it will be awful. That’s it, that’s the whole point.

                  Everything else will be at least as bad because it’s even more suffering, yes. Stop wishing for the acceleration of any part of this.

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                    Yeah war sucks. Guess what else sucks? America lol. You haven’t figured it out peacefully, so you’re going to have a civil war again. I’m not wishing anything, I’m stating a fact.

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      It is difficult to imagine how enforcing constitutionally-enshrined federal law will spark a civil war.

      Unless you mean these assholes are traitors. At which point it becomes even more important to enforce the rule of law and yeet them out of government.