Border Showdown
On January 24, 2024, Texas took a stand.
On that day, the Lone Star State’s governor, Greg Abbott, issued a statement affirming Texas’ right to self-defense, a statement repudiating not only the Biden administration’s open-border policy, but also a recent Supreme Court decision upholding temporarily the alleged right of the Biden administration to cut razor-wire barriers erected by Texas to stop the flow of illegal immigrants. The Texas National Guard was dispatched to sprawling Shelby Park at Eagle Pass to prevent federal agents from accessing a secured section of the border, triggering a standoff.
The possible ramifications of Texas’ act of defiance were not lost on the Greek choristers in the mainstream media. Eager to amplify the supposed dangers of the “Far Right,” voices in the press immediately likened the event to the Confederacy. “Eagle Pass is today’s Fort Sumter,” the Philadelphia Inquirer’s Will Bunch hyperbolized. “The standoff between Gov. Abbott’s tin soldiers and U.S. Border Patrol is the greatest challenge to federal authority in 60 years. The president must act.” In point of fact, the Inquirer regards the Texas border standoff to be worse than Fort Sumter, since, whereas no one was killed during the bombardment of Fort Sumter, “four migrants trying to reach U.S. soil at or near the disputed park in Eagle Pass, Texas, have drowned under circumstances that are arguably linked to the dispute between the militaristic approach of the Texas National Guard and the comparatively humane, locked-out agents of President Joe Biden’s administration.”
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