Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas) is urging President Biden to take command of the Texas National Guard if the state rejects a Supreme Court decision allowing US Border Patrol personnel to remove border barriers.
“Governor Greg Abbott is using the Texas National Guard to obstruct and create chaos at the border. If Abbott is defying yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling, @POTUS needs to establish sole federal control of the Texas National Guard now,” Castro wrote in a Tuesday post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.
Governor Greg Abbott is using the Texas National Guard to obstruct and create chaos at the border.
If Abbott is defying yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling, @POTUS needs to establish sole federal control of the Texas National Guard now. https://t.co/f1SKuCwEWG
— Joaquin Castro (@JoaquinCastrotx) January 23, 2024
The far left Democrat was reacting to a X post from Gov. Greg Abbott.
The governor’s post reads: “The Texas National Guard continues to hold the line in Eagle Pass. Texas will not back down from our efforts to secure the border in Biden’s absence.”
On Wednesday, the Texas governor threw down the gauntlet to the Biden administration over the state’s right to defend itself from foreign invasion.
“The federal government