Since at least the summer of 2022 and the creation of Operation Lone Star, the state of Texas has flagrantly violated federal law, illegally installing razor wire and barring federal agents from accessing the border. This illegal abrogation of border authority recently played a part in the death of 3 migrants crossing the Rio Grande, as Texas ignored their distress and wouldn’t allow Federal border agents to aid them.
Yesterday, January 23rd, the Supreme Court, in a 5-4 ruling, ordered Texas to allow federal agents access. The Texas National Guard released a statement that they will continue to “hold the line” at Colby Park.
There are no heroes in this story, as we are all painfully aware of the abuses perpetrated by federal border control, and are under no illusions about what their authority means for migrants. However, Operation Lone Star and Texas’ unilateral border policies are even MORE dangerous, even MORE outrageous than the existing federal policies, so this Supreme Court ruling marks a chance to scale back some of the most egregious human rights violations.
(Taken from an email sent to me by Never Again Action.)
Halfway through the vid and- I do wholly agree however that there is no “earned indigenism,” certainly not for those whose claim to the land stems from settler-colonial genocide- if anything, such actions I almost feel should cast a metaphorical curse upon all their descendants, an eternal repudiation of any indigeneity they might claim to hold. Settler-colonials certainly cannot become indigenous IMO, because the colonial apsect permanently scars the culture. Boers are not indigenous, for instance (though that does not mean they deserve to be genocided or mistreated- they, like the Rhodesians, and like the Americans, Canadians, etc. still today, do not deserve the land however). Even 1000 years onwards, I do not think that the white American peoples can ever dare hold claim to indigenism, unless they return to Europe. Metis on the other hand are native, etc. of course