Irregular migrants crossing the Rio Grande River in an attempt to reach from Mexico to Texas (Reuters)

The American magazine "Newsweek" quoted the head of the "Texas Nationalist Movement", Daniel Miller, as saying that tens of thousands of Democratic Party members support the secession of the state of Texas from the United States of America.

According to the magazine, Miller has become the most daring figure in the battle with the federal government regarding how to secure the border between the United States and Mexico to confront irregular immigration.

The United States is witnessing an unprecedented crisis related to irregular immigrants, whose arrival and crossing of the southern border of the United States with Mexico does not stop at record rates, as the total income from American territory during December alone reached 300,000 people, that is, a rate approaching 10,000 immigrants per day. .

With the failure of successive US administrations, both Republican and Democratic, to deal with the immigration issue, the four border states, California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas, resorted to separate measures to confront this crisis.

"Self-defense"

The state of Texas, at the initiative of its Republican governor, Greg Abbott, resorted to an old constitutional text that carries with it complications that may lead to confrontations between the states’ National Guard (the lightly armed state army) and elements of the immigration and border management agencies of the federal authorities.

The state's exposure to a state of what was called an "invasion" allows for some exceptional measures for "self-defense," which is the strategy that the state of Texas has resorted to, which may prompt a confrontation that may go beyond its political and legal scope, raising the fears of millions of Americans.

Miller explained to Newsweek that the issue of irregular immigration is not the only reason motivating secession, despite its importance, as there are other important factors, including the economy and excessive payments to the federal system, which are factors that push the Texans to move forward with their project.

According to the head of the Texas National Movement, approximately equal numbers of Republicans and Democrats in the state both support secession, because they realize that the issue is bigger than the partisan differences to which they are accustomed.

Long path

Miller continued by saying that the relationship between the state of Texas and the federal government is now broken, but he knows - according to Newsweek - that the success of the secession referendum will not easily become a reality, and Miller told the magazine that this "will happen 100% within the next three decades."

The state of Texas - controlled by Republicans - accuses the federal government, under the rule of President Joe Biden's administration, of refusing to perform its duties to secure the country's southern border, including the Texas border extending 2,018 kilometers with Mexico, which allowed the entry of 7 million irregular immigrants into American territory. Since Biden came to power.

Greg Abbott ordered the state's National Guard forces to build border barriers, and place huge barbed wire on the border, to prevent the influx of irregular migrants, and he says that they are "overwhelming the schools, hospitals, and infrastructure in the state, at a time when the state cannot provide health, social, and food services to them."

Source: Al Jazeera + Newsweek