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.)
Still watching and indeed, I’m really starting to see your point. Mixed feelings about it; I certainly have no intentions nor aspiration to ever claim indigeneity to the Americas, for instance (though I have always seen the indigenous here as distant kin who crossed Beringia thousands of years ago, and racially related kin, not in the sense of geography and history, but outright similar shared racial characteristics that have seen our experiences and treatment at times overlap greatly).
To me, the homeland (China, despite that I’ve never been- and on a broader pan-Asian sense, Asia, as a center of much of human civilization and what I identify with) has always held a nigh sacred position in my mind. Not as an ethnostate, not as some state to unilaterally support regardless of its actions, but as a place that was denied me by circumstance but that I feel- as an atheist- a near religious reverence and longing for, and always have, and the notion it a part of my very being, written into my DNA you might say- the land of my ancestors on both sides, the land that stands for my heritage and the continent and general region that stands for my race, for my very dignity (however things may be further complicated and I can get into those matters, I would stand by saying all that).
The appropriation of indigeneity they’re describing, to me seems like the epitome of white colonizer shit, indeed.
That reminds me of, in Socialism with Chinese Characteristics where Boer writes about how China aims to project cultural confidence without trying to be hegemonic and egotistical. Just presenting positive aspects of their culture to the world.