Tucker Carlson said on Monday that the men of Texas should stand up and defend their state amidst the ongoing crisis at the southern border caused by the record-high levels of unlawful migration.
Carlson posted on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, that “everyone in power, from the White House to the hedge fund managers to the Supreme Court of the United States, has decided to destroy the country by allowing it to be invaded.”
“That leaves the population to defend itself. Where are the men of Texas? Why aren’t they protecting their state and the nation?” he continued.
His comments came shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court vacated an injunction preventing federal agents from cutting concertina wire along the southern border deployed by the State of Texas, as previously reported by The Dallas Express.
The ruling, which seemingly allows federal agents to access river-front city property currently made inaccessible to them by Texas law enforcement, came in a 5-4 split decision with Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh dissenting.
Carlson’s call to action hearkens back to steps taken along the southern border approximately 20 years ago when roughly 900 volunteers mobilized to help secure the border during a surge of unlawful crossings.
The mobilization, organized by the Minutemen Project, lasted for 30 days in April 2004 and covered a collective 23-mile span along relatively unmonitored stretches of the southern border in Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas.
Although there have not been any such mobilizations in response to the current situation at the border, the state has taken multiple steps to manage the surge of unlawful migrants entering the country.
These steps include the implementation of a floating barrier along the Rio Grande that is meant to deter people from swimming across the river. The barrier prompted the U.S. Department of Justice to file a lawsuit against Texas, alleging that the state “flouted federal law by installing a barrier in the Rio Grande without obtaining the required federal authorization,” as reported by DX.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton recently announced he secured an en banc rehearing from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals that temporarily voids an order by the same court that the buoys must be removed.
