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Recently, the chaos in the Middle East has not stopped, and the "backyard" of the United States has once again erupted into a raging fire, with fierce conflicts breaking out between Texas and the US federal government, and the slogan of "Texas independence" once again resounding on the North American continent.
In fact, many people must be familiar with the topic of "Texas independence", and it can be said that basically every few years, the people of Texas will come to such an experience.
This can't help but make people wonder why there is a "contradictory force" in the bones of Texans? Once Texas is truly independent, what will it mean for the United States?
To figure out the answer to all this, we have to start with an "immigration lawsuit......
Immigration plagues the United States
One of the biggest headaches in the United States now is not the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, not the Russian-Ukrainian war, but "immigration", in which the governance of illegal immigrants is the top priority.
It can even be said that the current resolution of the "immigration issue" will not only affect whether the "donkey or elephant" will sit in the White House in the future, but also have a bearing on whether the US federal government and local state governments can continue to live together in the future.
After all, the United States is a federation of interests, and once the interests of one party are damaged, then the intensification of contradictions is almost inevitable!
During the Trump era, the United States has been implementing a relatively strict immigration restriction policy, and the "Muslim ban" and the "US-Mexico border wall" are both products of his tenure.
Trump's policies would obviously be widely praised from the perspective of the native Americans, but if they are considered from the perspective of minorities and new immigrants, then they will inevitably be suspected of being "discriminatory."
And immigration, just like that, is a force that cannot be ignored in American society today.
As a result, in the U.S. election at the end of 2020, Trump, who was a hardline opponent of immigration, was "ousted" from office, and Biden immediately entered the White House.
As the saying goes, "the ass determines the head", and whoever accepts the benefits must do things for whom.
After officially taking office, Biden immediately carried out drastic reforms to the legacy of the Trump era, and vigorously promoted the immigration policy marked by "openness".
Although the Biden administration has repeatedly stressed that this does not mean that the United States will "completely open its doors to illegal immigrants", the reality is that the number of illegal immigrants arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border has reached record highs.
In this regard, Trump commented that the Biden administration's policies have plunged the US border into a "nightmare of complete loss of control."
How heavy is the Biden administration's "open-mindedness" policy on the United States?
On this point, Texas Governor Abbott obviously has a special say, don't look at him now "turning his face" with Biden and doing it against, but the premise of all this is that Texas has received more than 6 million illegal immigrants in three years under the influence of Biden's policies.
You must know that the total population of Texas is only more than 30 million, and suddenly experiencing such a huge wave of immigration will obviously have a serious impact on the local people's livelihood.
So, in this situation, Texas Governor Abbott chose to rebuild the Trump-era border wall, and also thought of a brilliant solution for illegal immigrants who have broken into his jurisdiction, that is: "Whoever calls, sends where." ”
For example, in September 2022, Abbott personally delivered more than 50 immigrants to the door of the vice president of the United States, who supports the "open immigration policy".
But it is clear that "morality" is only suitable for shouting slogans to the mouth, and when it really makes those "virgins" take action, the result will only be all kinds of twists.
A "lawsuit" detonates a "powder keg"
On January 9 of this year, James Madison High School in Brooklyn, New York, suddenly informed all students that they were required to take two days of online classes at home.
Such a sudden and unusual notice made all students and parents feel extremely incomprehensible.
In the end, the school was forced to announce the reason for the decision, and it turned out that the New York City government planned to move nearly 2,000 illegal immigrants from their camps to the school for resettlement, so that they would not freeze to death in the coming storm.
It doesn't matter if you don't explain it, as soon as you explain it, it ignited the emotions of the students' parents.
And this James Madison High School is not a "soft persimmon", and the families who can go to school here are basically either rich or expensive, so fierce protests broke out.
Eventually, the matter made its way to the White House.
In fact, even without this turmoil, it is only a matter of time before the Biden administration will strike another "heavy hand" on the immigration issue.
There are two reasons for this, one is that 2024 is the U.S. election year, and Biden is bound to win minority votes, and the other reason is that he has long looked at the state and Abbott extremely unpleasantly.
After all, not to mention that Abbott still adheres to the old method when Biden clearly proposes the "open immigration policy", that is, after Trump's defeat, the "Lone Star Movement" is enough to make Biden still haunted by it.
So, after comprehensive consideration, Biden threw the matter to the US Supreme Court, asking the Supreme Court to rule on the "illegality" of Texas' construction of a wall at the border.
Finally, on January 22, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that Texas' construction of the border wall was "illegal."
Subsequently, Biden took the Supreme Court's decision to put pressure on the Texas government and sent federal troops to prepare to forcibly dismantle the border wall built by Texas.
I have to say that Biden's move is indeed very clever.
From the standpoint of the U.S. Supreme Court, the immigration issue involves a series of factors such as the safety and security of U.S. nationals, and it is impossible to allow the 50 states to fight on their own, and they must obey the command of the Federation.
And with the authorization of the Supreme Court, Biden naturally stands on the commanding heights of the law, and if Texas continues to cling to its own opinions, then it is openly challenging the authority of the state.
Therefore, Biden's decision is almost to put himself in an invincible position.
However, he would never have thought that there are also "masters" behind Abbott.
It is true that Texas should have heeded the Supreme Court's ruling, but there is a higher law than this ruling that would support Abbott's counterattack: "Private property is sacrosanct!"
You must know that the federal government did not pay a penny for the new border wall in Texas, so logically speaking, this is the "private property" of the people of Texas, and if the federal government forcibly dismantles it, it is a blatant violation of the law and a violation of the rights of the people of Texas.
What's more, Article 1325 of the U.S. Constitution clearly stipulates: "Aliens are prohibited from entering the country", which gives Texas the same legal support for what it does.
As a result, both sides held high the banner of the law and refused to give in to each other, and then the current situation was created.
"Split" on the horizon?
In fact, Texas is far from the only local state that has complained about Biden's immigration policy, and even within the Democratic Party, there are many objections to it.
According to a September 2021 poll, only 60% of Democrats were satisfied with or supported the outcome in the first year of Biden's "open immigration policy," which is obviously an extremely unhealthy situation for a newly inaugurated president.
In this regard, some pessimists believe that "the US immigration policy system has in fact collapsed, and there is no feasible solution in sight." ”
Therefore, after the outbreak of this immigration conflict, 25 states immediately responded in support of Texas' approach, and Marjorie Taylor Green, a Republican congressman from Georgia, directly issued an appeal: "The United States should divorce." ”
So, inevitably, four years after Trump stepped down, people finally began to miss the man.
But then again, is Biden's "open-minded" immigration policy really nothing to be desired?
The answer is clearly no.
According to the Biden administration's vision, this policy will not only help the United States obtain a large number of cheap labor, but also reshape the image of the United States as a "global beacon", and then attract some high-end talent to the United States.
You know, as a country of immigrants, the United States has a successful way to immigration, and now that it has made some achievements, how can it keep immigrants out?
However, ideas belong to ideas, and reality returns to reality.
Nowadays, the "cake" of the United States is such a big piece, once a large number of immigrants pour in, then they are bound to share the "cake" of the Americans, of course, it doesn't matter when they are poor, but when they are rich, who wants to take the initiative to reduce the quality of life?
At present, after such a fuss in Texas, Biden's ambitious plan is likely to be forced to shelve, and Mike Johnson, speaker of the US House of Representatives, directly admitted: "This agreement has not yet been reached, and it has been stillborn." ”
After all, no one really dares to take the risk of detonating a "civil war" in the United States.
So, the question is, after the federal "compromise", will the "independence of Texas" also come to an end?
In fact, the US federal concession will not only not make the "Texas independence" momentum fade, but will also make it more intense.
Now, the bipartisan struggle in the United States has almost been laid out on the surface, and under such circumstances, the upcoming 2024 election, no matter which side loses, will be absolutely unacceptable to each side.
As the Republican congressman said earlier, "divorce" may have become the near future of the United States.
In fact, whether the United States wants to admit it or not, the current situation is that the United States has long since lost its former glory.
In such a situation, it is almost impossible to bring together a group of people with different values, different races, and different languages.
That's why we say that the United States gets together because of its interests, and it will eventually break up because of its interests.
Of course, judging from the current situation, no one dares to take this head, after all, "1 dozen 49", but anyone who is a normal person should know that it is an unreliable thing.
But what if one person can unite 25 states together and form a 25-25 situation?
We can't know about this, but we know from what happened in Texas that they are not alone.
Therefore, if Texas is really "independent" one day, don't feel that Texas is not self-sufficient, because this is likely to be just the beginning of an "avalanche"!
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What is the "tough" federal government in Texas, USA_Reporter__Sun Ding__Liu Chen__Xu Jianmei
On the Biden Administration's Shift in Immigration Policy and the Governance Dilemma of Illegal Immigration_Liao Xingcun
"The World Says" US Media: The Migration Crisis Is Bursting the Bubble of "Liberal" Moral Rhetoric in the United States_China Daily
The governor sent immigrants to the vice president's door in batches, and illegal immigrants became "political pawns" in the United States