From wildfires to being the 50th freest state to enriching New Mexico's cannabis retailers to gas pipeline explosions to hurricanes: the Lone Star State is in turmoil.
Hundreds of National Guardsmen have spent the past three years rotating through a deployment in Texas. “Political theater” is how immigration and border relations researcher Tony Payan describes the operation. Records show that the sensational arrests and busts Midwest governors predicted have been few and far between. With a combined $7.1 million spent to date, there appears to be no clear link between the aid provided by Iowa, Missouri and Nebraska and the operation's success at blocking illegal entry to Texas and stymieing drug traffickers at the border. Additionally, 17 Texas National Guardsmen have died during the three years of the operation, according to reporting by the Army Times. At least four of these troops committed suicide, the Times reported. [Midwest states far from U.S.-Mexico border have spent millions to send troops there]Recall that mercenaries, some from South Dakota, and National Guard troops brutalized many of the thousands of demonstrators opposed to the Dakota Excess pipeline who camped on federal land near Cannon Ball, North Dakota. In its aftermath some 761 people were arrested between early August, 2016 and late February, 2017. Trump apparatchiks even referred to the American Indians and their compatriots as jihadists and insurgents.
South Dakota’s governor sends Guard troops to Texas without hesitation but says deploying them in her own state to ease flooding concerns is too expensive.
Learn more about red state failure in Texas from David Montgomery.
If @GovAbbott doesn’t think that #NewMexico is important to the overall well-being of #Texas, then he must be forgetting about the #PermianBasin and the oil industry that straddles our two states. I don’t see him laying concertina wire there. https://t.co/gtWmWCvZYs
— Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham (@GovMLG) September 19, 2024
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