Democrats Call On Biden To Federalize Texas National Guard In Growing Border Dispute

LOADING ERROR LOADING A pair of Texas Democrats are calling on Joe Biden to seize control of the Texas National Guard and make it comply with a recent Supreme Court order allowing the president’s administration to remove razor wire set up by Texas along the U.S.-Mexico border. “Governor Greg Abbott is using the Texas National Guard to obstruct and create chaos at the border,” Rep. Joaquin Castro wrote in a social media post Tuesday. needs to establish sole federal control of the Texas National Guard now.” Rep. Greg Casar said that he agreed with Castro on federal control, and accused Abbott of using “political stunts and inflammatory language to advance his own agenda, violating the Constitution and endangering both U.S. citizens and asylum seekers.” The White House, for the moment, is keeping its distance. On Thursday, Trump fueled the flames by calling on other states to send their National Guard troops to the border to aid Texas, accusing Biden in a post on his website Truth Social of seeking to make it “so that the invasion continues unchecked.” In Monday’s unsigned order, the Supreme Court lifted a prior federal appeals order barring Border Patrol agents from interfering with the wire except in medical emergencies. Rep. Veronica Escobar said, “There is nothing in the Constitution that allows a state to take on a federal role in the way Greg Abbott has.” Federalizing National Guard troops wouldn’t be unprecedented.