Friends … I don’t even know where to start with this post.  It’s rather like a Rubik’s Cube or a maze or some other puzzle that boggles the mind.  I think maybe the best way to start is with a listing of some of the facts of the matter … the matter, by the way, being the situation at the Texas-Mexico border and the responses to it.  So, here are the facts as I understand them:

• The number of migrants entering the U.S. from Central and South America has grown and poses significant problems for border states such as Texas. 95% of these migrants are simply fleeing danger or extreme poverty, hoping to provide a better life for their families – they are not coming here for any nefarious purposes.
• Texas Governor Greg Abbott approved stringing razor wire along the banks of the Rio Grande River that separates Texas and Mexico in order to keep the migrants from reaching the U.S.
• Migrants were getting injured … shredded, as it were, by running into the razor wire while trying to swim across the Rio Grande.
• On January 12, the Texas National Guard blocked the Border Patrol from assisting migrants in distress, resulting in the death of a woman and two children.
• The federal government asked the Supreme Court to overturn a lower court ruling that allowed Abbott et al to continue placing razor wire in the river. On January 22^nd, the Supreme Court sided with the federal government, giving federal agencies the authority to remove the razor wire.
• Per the U.S. Constitution, the defining authority, it is the federal government, not the states, that has the power to regulate immigration.
• Governor Abbott has refused to abide by the ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court, is refusing to allow Border Patrol agents access to remove the existing razor wire, and is installing still more razor wire in the river.
• Every Republican governor except one, Vermont’s Phil Scott, has publicly said they support Texas’s right to defy the federal government, with a few even hinting they might send their own state’s National Guard to help Abbott.

• The U.S. Senate is very close to coming to terms on a bipartisan bill to enhance and repair border security, something that has been considered critical and demanded by Republicans.
• Donald Trump told his minions in Congress that he does NOT want the border security bill to pass because, a) its passage would help President Biden, and b) he wants to be able to use the “crisis” at the border as a campaign issue this year.
• Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, said that he will abide by Trump’s wishes and that any bill regarding border security would be “dead on arrival”.
• A truck convoy called “Take Our Border Back Convoy” is heading toward the border from around the nation and is expected to arrive sometime this week.

Those are the facts of the matter.  Media persona like Charlie Kirk and Jack Posobiec are adding fuel to the fire saying such ridiculous things as this is the beginning of a new civil war and that the Supreme Court Justices who sided with the federal government “deserve to be executed as traitors.”

This is a frightening situation, to say the least, my friends.  With tempers running high during this very contentious election year, and with more guns than people in the nation, the potential for violence on a large scale is high.

There is so much wrong with this situation. Governor Abbott is a fool who obviously either didn’t study or failed to pass Constitutional Law 101.  The Republican governors who are supportive of his perfidy also don’t understand the Constitution and are in violation of their oath of office.  Speaker Mike Johnson has just proven that he is naught more than a Trump toadie who, when told by Donald Trump to “jump”, bends over and asks, “How high, your majesty?”  We no longer have a Congress that works for the best interest of the people … we have a group of highly paid people, half of whom work only for the interests of one Donald F. Trump.

But the biggest thing wrong with this whole thing, in my humble view, is that nobody seems to care about … life.  The people coming across our southern border are not, with very few exceptions, criminals or druggies … they are just people trying to escape a bad situation and make a life for their families.  They are hard-working men & women, they are mothers, fathers, grandparents, and children … babies even.  And they are dying.  Governor Abbott and all those in support of his cruelty are killing these people!  WHERE IS THE HUMANITY???