Democratic lawmakers have called on Biden to federalize the Texas National Guard as the border standoff intensifies.
    • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
      42·
      11 months ago

      Just learn some Spanish and Abbott will let you get on a bus to come up North, for free!

      • Billiam@lemmy.world
        19·
        11 months ago

        If Texass suddenly became its own country, I wouldn’t expect them to be so generous to those people as to keep sending them to better places.

        They’d probably decide those people should be concentrated somewhere away from decent Texans.

        • InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world
          3·
          11 months ago

          Those Texans forget that current prosperity relies on being part of the Union. As soon as they leave they will be worse than just having tariffs; they’d be embargoded so hard Cuba looks like a trade empire.

          • StraySojourner@lemmy.world
            2·
            11 months ago

            I had a buddy in the army who desperately wanted to believe Texas was a fully functional country that needed no America.