Given that people have been killed by this, wouldn't a federal murder charge be more appropriate?
By way of comparison, if a private homeowner sets a booby trap for burglars and a burglar is killed by it, the homeowner is guilty of murder.
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Generally not murder, but some lesser yet still serious crime. But the sentiment is there.
If I design a trap that will kill someone climbing thorough my window there's an argument for that to be 1st degree murder: it was pre-planned even if I didn't have a specific target.
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It's a class issue. Rich people are allowed to break almost any law they want with few (if any) repercussions.
The Republicans do break more laws than Dems, but Dems break laws and get away with it as well. There are many well-documented cases of both sides using Insider Trading for their personal gain despite it being against the law.
The only time rich people get burned by breaking the law is when it fucks over other rich people.
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Greg Abbot is a fucking scumbag.
No, say it how it is. Greg Abbott is a white supremacist murderer
He's also a little piss baby
And most Texans love this fact.
Maybe we should try calling him a liberal commie socialist anarchist? Just some good ole word vomit that might hurt him? Cause yeah I feel like calling him a white supremacist boosts his appeal to most of those cretins.
I, for one, am on Team Tree.
Not sure why the commander in chief can't just order them removed and let Texas deal with the US military if they don't like it.
Those buoys are deployed by the Texas National Guard who answer to the governor of the state of Texas and is property of the state.
The commander in chief could hypothetically commandeer their property and dispose it but requires a lot of legal hurdles and time to write warning orders, operational orders and fragmentary orders to deploy the US military to get it done.
It's cheaper and easier to get the SCOTUS to order it illegal and force them to do it themselves with their own state money instead of federal money. Rather than burdening US taxpayers, lets burden Texan taxpayers to fix the problem they themselves created.
Your neighbor parked his pickup truck in your driveway to deliberately block you in and said he can't move it because it's broken down. Are you going to pay for a tow truck to haul it away or make him pay for it?
Couldn't the feds do all that then sue to recoup the cost after? Hell take parallel paths and just let the quickest win.
Texas "National" Guard. lol
National Guards are commanded by Federal gov, otherwise they could be seen as a militia with insurrection abilities.
They do actually have their own state military. IIRC, they're called state defense forces, and multiple states currently have them.
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Posse comitatus, for one
I don't think removing unauthorized barriers from a US border would qualify as domestic policing.
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I don't understand how they think this will stop immigrants crossing the border. They were already willing to deal with predatory coyotes, miles of scorching deserts, border control officers, and whatever variety of wildlife they encounter along the way, to reach the US. All in order to escape the hellhole situation they were in. These barbed wires and asshole "tactics" like dumping water onto the ground won't stop them from attempting, and all it does is add additional cruelty and death to the situation.
I am for border control, but we need to do it in a smarter way and also fix the asylum process for these kinds of situations.
additional cruelty and death to the situation.
That's the point.
how are buoy's supposed to stop anyone?
Are they dying on the Mexico side or the west side? Perhaps it’s actually an act of war
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Good. Make the bastard go broke paying legal fees. The less Governor Hot Wheels and his Cavalcade of Corruption have, the less they can pull this kind of shit.
Thats not how any of this works. It's not like he is personally in civil court. He will incur exactly zero personal cost in this matter, and if anything with gain traction with his supporters.
The outcome will either be nothing happening or the barrier is taken down at the cost of taxpayers
I hate that you’re right.
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