Texas National Guard Takes Control of Popular Migrant-Crossing Site, Bars Federal Border Patrol Agents from Area.

White House asks Supreme Court to forbid Texas from using National Guard from blocking U.S. Border Patrol from opening border checkpoints. Run-on sentence. Bottom line: Biden uses Border Patrol to open ports of entry, even cut the barbed wire Texas put up. Now Texas is using the National Guard to keep the U.S. Border Patrol away from the ports of entry.

In my day, immigrants arrived waving small American flags. Now they cross the border waving large large flags of their home countries. Do you suppose, just possibly, there is a lesson here?

Now Supreme Court is asked to decide the question. Alternatively, Biden could federalize the Texas National Guard, send his general to command it. But this would be a constitutional crisis. Assuming we still have a Constitution. It commands the president to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed.” Ignoring immigration laws and border security is hardly faithful. An old proverb advises, “Pick your fights.” This will be a heck of one.