{"id":2016439,"date":"2023-08-30T07:30:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T11:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-feds-just-messed-with-texas-over-buoys-and-sided-with-cartel-driven-mexico\/"},"modified":"2023-08-30T07:36:34","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T11:36:34","slug":"the-feds-just-messed-with-texas-over-buoys-and-sided-with-cartel-driven-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-feds-just-messed-with-texas-over-buoys-and-sided-with-cartel-driven-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"Feds disrupt Texas buoys, favor Mexico&#8217;s cartel"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-feds-just-messed-with-texas-over-buoys-and-sided-with-cartel-driven-mexico%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2016439&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>As Washington, D.C., refuses to defend Texas, and even sides with Texas\u2019 foreign antagonists over a buoy barrier meant to prevent \u2063illegal immigration, it brings \u200dto mind when Rome abandoned Britain. <\/p>\n<p>In the\u200d violence and decay of late antiquity, with the Dark Ages rushing in alongside the barbarian armies, the far-flung peoples and provinces of Rome\u200b turned to the empire for help. Among them were the cities of Britain, for \u200bcenturies a jewel of the empire, and now menaced by\u2064 the shadow of\u200d conquest, pillage, and rape. An appeal for aid went forth, and in the year A.D. 410, so the historian Zosimus tells us,\u200d an answer came\u2062 back from the Emperor Honorius. The answer was short and simple and laden with doom: You\u2019re on\u2062 your own. <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-833269938\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-88965e121e854d2bdca3d0c160b99713 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-88965e121e854d2bdca3d0c160b99713\"><\/div>\n<p>The so-called Rescript of Honorius is the commonly accepted end of Roman rule in Britain, and it is worth emphasizing what it signifies. Britain\u2064 did not leave Rome; rather, Rome abandoned Britain. The compact of ruler and ruled was broken by \u200dthe center\u2019s refusal to defend its province.<\/p>\n<p>What may seem hyperbolic at \u200cfirst glance\u200c is\u2064 dragged \u2062into banal reality\u2063 by\u2064 observation of the border-buoy fracas presently unfolding \u2014 and by the actions of the United States Department of Justice <em>against<\/em> Texas, and <em>on\u2064 behalf of<\/em> a Mexican state that is at this point largely a cartel-driven syndicate.\u2064 That \u200dcharacterization of the Mexican state is unfortunately \u2064accurate, with the president of Mexico himself in more or less open alliance with the \u2063Sinaloa Cartel and a frequent apologist for cartel actions \u2063in general.\u2062 His example is followed down the chain to local authorities, especially on the border: Ask any Texas-side law-enforcement professional (and \u200dwe\u2064 have), and almost none of them will express confidence in the\u2064 honesty \u2064or integrity of his Mexican counterparts. <\/p>\n<p>The \u2063buoy barrier was placed in the Rio Grande outside Eagle Pass, Texas, after years of federal refusal to control the human-trafficking crisis. \u200dAs that crisis metastasized with the cartel takeover of the Mexican state, the positive obligation of Texas to defend its citizenry compelled it to act, and, with the barrier, it did so within its own \u200cconstitutional powers. Though there is no question that Texas and Texans would prefer the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-reconvenes-with-no-end-in-sight-to-speaker-stalemate\/\" title=\"House Reconvenes With No End in Sight to Speaker Stalemate\">federal government simply<\/a> do its job, it is an\u2063 expression of the genius of \u200cthe founders that we have recourse\u2064 to other levels of government when it will not. <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Federal Government Attacks Texas<\/h2>\n<p>The reaction of that federal government is \u200ctelling, in ways that late-Roman Britons would find\u200c sadly \u200cfamiliar. Instead of reacting to\u2064 Texas\u2019 self-defense in ways suggesting a sense of stewardship for American citizens and communities, and an understanding of its positive responsibilities for control of the border, it has \u2063instead gone on the attack \u2014 against Texas.  <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-73cb2619de6b444d3bd0acdf9db86767 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-73cb2619de6b444d3bd0acdf9db86767\"><\/div>\n<p>An expression of that attack was on display this past Aug. 22 in a federal courtroom in Austin, Texas, as both \u2062sides set\u200d forth their cases in <em>United States v. Abbott<\/em>: the federal government\u2019s lawsuit against\u2064 the governor \u200dof Texas that seeks to compel him to \u2014 there is no other way to\u2064 phrase it\u200c \u2014 stop defending Texas. <\/p>\n<p>The \u2064rhetoric from the Justice Department litigators \u200cwas predictable to an extent. \u2063For example, they\u200d rely heavily upon the erroneous 2012 Supreme \u200cCourt decision in <em>Arizona \u2063v. United States<\/em>, in which a left-leaning\u2064 court prohibited the states from exercising plenary powers over persons within their jurisdictions for \u200dthe\u200c first time since 1789. What was less predictable, but \u200cconsiderably more appalling, was \u2064the extent to which the federal government litigators \u200dadvocated, in court, <em>on behalf of the cartel-driven Mexican state<\/em> \u2014 against Texas and its citizenry. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMexico \u2064won\u2019t cooperate \u2063with the U.S. as long\u2064 as the barrier is in place,\u201d said the federal litigators, as if Mexican cooperation was at this point \u2062meaningful. Mexico, as \u2063observers know,\u200b more or less kicked out the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration in 2021, and the Mexican president recently \u200bvowed to use the Mexican\u200d military to defend\u2063 the cartels against any U.S. military action. \u2064 <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMexico does\u200d not generally like walls between our two countries,\u201d \u200dsaid the\u2063 federal litigators, as\u2062 if the preferences of \u200cthe Mexican state-cartel syndicate are at all relevant, \u2063especially versus the defense of U.S. citizens in Texas. \u201cMexico has expressed great gratitude \u200bto \u200bthe federal government for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/candy-or-cannabis-new-study-warns-of-edibles-in-copycat-packaging\/\" title=\"Candy Or Cannabis? New Study Warns Of Edibles In \u2018Copycat Packaging\u2019\">pursuing legal action<\/a> \u200dagainst the State \u2062of Texas,\u201d said the \u200dfederal litigators, to which one must respond: no doubt. It\u2019s telling that they boast of it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-c28b2ca6994253312f7f409977af0def fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-c28b2ca6994253312f7f409977af0def\"><\/div>\n<p>Especially bizarre and notable was\u200b this utterance: \u201cMexico generally supports humane migration practices.\u201d\u200c Well, the U.S. Department of Justice may \u2063believe that. They believe a great many untrue \u200cthings in Washington, D.C. Very few in Texas believe it. No one on the border believes it. Absolutely no one among the millions \u2064trapped in\u200c the cruel web of Mexican \u2064human trafficking \u2014 abetted \u200dby various organs of the Mexican state \u2014 believes it. The charitable explanation is \u2063that Washington,\u200c D.C., is ignorant. The uncharitable explanation, which is to say the realistic\u2064 one, is obvious.<\/p>\n<p><em>What<\/em> the federal government is doing is sadly evident. <em>Why<\/em> they are doing it requires informed speculation. The Washington, D.C., \u200creflex is always, by \u200bits nature, going to\u200d be against state sovereignty and the \u206310th Amendment \u2014 and that goes double when the state in question is governed by the political party opposite\u200c to the regime\u2019s own. <\/p>\n<p>We can speculate a bit\u2063 further and note that both Mexico and the \u2064United States have presidential elections in 2024 \u2014 and each incumbent requires \u200bsomething of the other. The Mexican \u200bpresident,\u200d who hopes to rule through his eventual \u2063successor \u2014 presidential reelection is forbidden there \u2014 benefits greatly from shows of respect and deference by the United \u200bStates. The American president, who is running for reelection, benefits\u2062 greatly if Mexico clamps down on any <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/missouri-ag-eric-schmitt-to-newsmax-taking-a-blowtorch-to-the-biden-agenda\/\" title=\"Missouri AG Eric Schmitt to Newsmax: Taking a 'Blowtorch' to the Biden Agenda\">human trafficking crisis<\/a> in the run-up to November 2024. In this light (and keeping in mind the Biden \u2063regime\u2019s robust record\u2064 of foreign-power entanglements including China and Ukraine), it is not \u2063at all unreasonable to ask \u2063whether the Biden administration\u2019s attack \u200con \u200dTexas, and advocacy for Mexico, stems from a crassly political motivation, predicated upon a deal.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Who Fights for America?<\/h2>\n<p>The entire affair is a great tragedy \u2014 and\u2063 a great danger to the future of the United States. \u200cWhen Roman \u200dBritain was abandoned by Honorius, the emperor at least had the excuse that the Britons never <em>chose<\/em> to be part of the empire in the first place. The United States of America is\u2062 different: Every constituent\u2063 state\u2064 has\u2064 at some point \u2063in history made \u2064a positive \u200cdecision to enter the Union. When they did, the federal government assumed a definite set of\u200d obligations and responsibilities toward them, as much as those states assumed obligations toward it. When that \u200cfederal government decides\u2063 it will no longer \u200cmeet those obligations and will moreover \u200calign\u200c itself with an antagonistic foreign power <em>against its own states and citizens<\/em>, what recourse is there? <\/p>\n<p>Right now there is the recourse to the judiciary \u2014\u2062 and\u200d Texas \u200cis smartly taking that path. Yet it is dangerous and foolish in the extreme for the federal government to provoke the question, and to insist that the only pathway for American citizens on American \u200bsoil is\u200b mute submission\u200c to its dictates. In south Texas, in the places where D.C. bureaucrats never go, the ordinary people are\u200c acutely sensitive to the issues at stake. \u2062Mere weeks\u200d back my colleagues met with ranchers in \u2064Starr County, Texas \u2014 \u2062remote, rural, and hard \u200dup on the Rio Grande \u2014 and one of those ranchers, a man who has encountered armed\u2062 traffickers from Mexico on his own property more than once, asked about exactly this. \u2064He \u200bwas a U.S. Army veteran who defended\u2063 his country at war, he said, so why won\u2019t the United States defend him?<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s asking the right question. Washington, D.C., is giving the wrong answer. \u2063The good question and\u2063 its bad answer illuminate what\u2019s really \u200bat stake in the buoy-barrier \u200ccase, which is \u2014 as is so often true \u2014 about things far beyond itself. Every \u2062American citizen\u2062 in every American \u200ccommunity has a legitimate expectation that \u200bhis government will not attack his way of life, and\u2064 will not side with foreign powers against \u2064him. <\/p>\n<p>The Biden regime does both. In understanding\u2062 what it means, we hear echoes of Thomas Jefferson\u2019s distress from \u200ctwo centuries back: \u201cThis\u200c momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror.\u2064 I considered it at \u2062once as the knell of the Union.\u201d But \u200cthe Union is not done yet. The question is whether the \u200cregime\u2063 in D.C. will\u200d succeed in rendering it a tool for our repression \u2062\u2014 or Texas will succeed\u200c in returning it to its\u2063 founding purpose. <\/p>\n<p>The\u2063 question is open.\u2064 All we can\u200b say for sure is that if the Biden regime \u200bfights for Mexico, it is Texas, now, that fights for America.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-b5a119aa2594c22759bd1d1041c12fd4 fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-b5a119aa2594c22759bd1d1041c12fd4\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">    \t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Washington, D.C., neglects Texas and supports its foreign adversaries against a barrier to curb illegal immigration, it evokes memories of Rome&#8217;s abandonment of Britain. Similar to the chaos and decline of late antiquity, with the Dark Ages looming and barbarian armies advancing, the distant peoples and regions face uncertainty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2362,"featured_media":2016440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2016439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2016439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2016440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2016439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2016439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2016439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}