Because the facts and law side with Texas

Lol no they don't. Paxton knows that. Federal agents always have jurisdiction over the border

Just send in an 18 year old kid with a gun, those Texans will be petrified with fear and won’t even be able to respond. Or does that only work when it’s at a school?

I mean, they are occupying a section of the border of the entire country, and denying, through threat of violence, the federal government/military access to said border. At some point, this simply has to be read as insurrection, and put down. A country only gets to exist and enforce laws by virtue of the implied violence (physical or otherwise) that it can leverage to back it up.

Of course there are complications to this, like the thought that steamrolling these troopers would then spark a greater revolt. But when you have a state doing things like this, particularly a state that has made it abundantly clear they desire to secede and have prepared for secession, I think you need to play hardball. This could be either by forcibly bringing them back in line through state violence, or giving them what they want, in such a way that it ends up being a pyrrhic victory; imagine aggressive border protocols and removal of free travel along the Texas border, intense tariffs and duties on Texan goods, etc… honestly a Texit could be quite beneficial for the country, shifting congress balances somewhat. Add in some statehood’s for PR, Guam and DC and now you’re really cooking with gas.

Who knows though, I’m still finding it hard to believe that the Jan 6 insurrectionists weren’t mowed down in machine gun fire when they penetrated the capitol, so clearly my expectations of government reaction and what actually happens have some daylight between them.

What's the issue? Get a ton of federal agents, march on the border, arrest all obstructing Texas shitheads and beat them down with the book. Make examples out of them.

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”

WTF? A cease and desist is a demand, not a "request!"

That's not even quoting Texas' fascist AG or anything; that's the article writers' own spin. Why are Julia Ainsley and Zoë Richards carrying water for fascists?

The only thing Ken Paxton should be defending in court is himself for securities fraud.

Just arrest all these fuckers, starting with the Texas Governor.

Revoke all federal funding until they comply

For fuck's sake, arrest these nimrods. At gunpoint, because God knows they aren't fucking cooperative.

"Now stop it or we'll send another sternly-worded letter!"

The clear answer here is to say if Texas demands to police the boarder, all Federal boarder agents will be pulled back, and funding for boarder protection will be withheld. You can’t have it both ways.

Republicans: We need stronger border protections!

DHS: Here's increased BPD funding and facility modernization efforts.

Republicans: No. Only death.

Time to recolonize Texas, send in the settlers.

God I hate our state government

Also remember Ken Paxton is a criminal

They decided the pronouns of Texas are her? Awfully progressive, didn't know the state of Texas could even have a gender?

...so arrest it.

Isn’t that insurrection? The Texas government needs to be dismantled and rebuilt.

Time for my daily comment on this situation that Biden won't do shit because the only true crime to democrats is hurting Republican feels.