2024-02-29 07:33:06
A movement in Texas demands its independence from the United States
A group of Texas residents is demanding that the state be returned to an independent state as it was 200 years ago, in a move called “Text,” considering that the move is somewhat inspired by “Brexit” and will contribute to resolving the immigration crisis and the dispute with Washington over control of the border with Mexico. .
According to Agence France-Presse, the dispute over border control between Democratic President Joe Biden and Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott revealed the extent of the gap in the United States.
“We know here in Texas that the only way Texas will be able to secure the border and establish a logical immigration system is by doing what 200 other countries around the world are doing and doing it as an independent, self-governing nation,” said Daniel Miller, head of the Texas Nationalist Movement. ».
Miller stresses that his movement, which was founded in 2005, has never been this close to achieving its goal.
In the 19th century, Texas was effectively part of Mexico, but following a war of independence known as the Texas Revolution, it gained sovereignty in 1836 and, just nine years later, joined the United States as the 28th state.
Miller likens Text’s move to the 2016 Brexit shock, in which Britain left the European Union.
He stated that Texas shares history and interests with the rest of the United States, but like the defenders of the independence of the Spanish region of Catalonia, its residents feel that the central government is unable to understand their problems.
As Americans prepare to cast their votes in November, likely choosing between Biden and Donald Trump, the Texas independence movement is demanding that the state legislature pass a law allowing a secession referendum.
But the US Constitution does not include any clause allowing the states to do this, noting that the secession of southern states, including Texas, in 1861 ignited the Civil War, which was considered the bloodiest in the history of the United States.
Texan or American?
There has always been a secessionist movement in Texas, but it was and remains a fringe movement, according to Joshua Blank, research director at the Texas Politics Project at the University of Texas at Austin.
He noted that the border crisis between Texas and the federal government “created a situation that I think this group really sought to exploit to make their views not only look like mainstream thinking, but more rational than they actually are.”
Misty Walters, a housewife in her fifties who attended Miller’s speech at a traditional restaurant in Texas, said that the state’s residents feel that they belong to Texas first before they are Americans.
“We are being invaded,” she said, referring to the record numbers of people crossing the border, many of whom came from Central America, in an issue that figures prominently during the presidential elections.
“Texas must better protect its citizens,” she added.
A poll this month by the Texas Policy Project found that 26 percent of respondents feel they are from Texas before they are Americans, compared to 27 percent who felt that way in 2014, a difference in which there is little statistical significance.
Plank said: “Even if it is, this does not mean that 26 percent support a bloody separation from the United States.”
A Newsweek poll this month concluded that 67 percent of Texans prefer that the state remain part of the United States.
Blank stated that the separatist movement is largely fueled by “the idea of a unified American culture usually associated with white skin.”
“With a border crisis, it reinforces concerns for people who consider this idea of American culture to be somehow true,” he added.
“Come, take him.”
In the town of Eagle Pass in the far south of Texas, Governor Abbott took military control of the Shelby Park area overlooking the Rio Grande River separating the state from Mexico. The site is the center of a major crisis with the federal government.
The governor, who accuses the Biden administration of failing to prevent a massive influx of migrants into the state, ordered the installation of razor wire on parts of the border.
Biden, in turn, filed a lawsuit once morest Texas, stressing that border control was an issue that had always fallen within federal jurisdiction.
Miller likens the current situation to the events of 1835 when Texas was still part of Mexico.
Texas refused to return a cannon loaned by Mexico, and raised a flag that read, “Come and take it,” which led to the outbreak of the successful Texas War of Independence.
Like the cannon, the tension surrounding Eagle Pass Park is part of a much larger problem, according to Miller, who called it a symbol of “the broken relationship between the federal government and the states.”
But unlike a war with Mexico, or even a civil war, Miller’s supporters believe secession peacefully is possible this time.
But Plank ruled this out, saying: “Texas will not be able to secede peacefully.” The United States will not negotiate with them on favorable terms.”
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