REAGAN-APPOINTED JUDGE SWATS DOWN GREG ABBOTT

     It's a rare thing these days when a Conservative scores a victory for Liberty over the Reactionary Republicans. On Thursday, Federal Judge David Ezra---who was appointed to the Federal Bench by Ronald Reagan---blocked a Texas law scheduled to go into effect next week which drastically would have expanded Police State powers under the pretext of fighting illegal immigration. If the law had gone into effect, it would have authorized any and all law enforcement to arrest, and judges to order removed, anyone merely suspected of having entered Texas without presenting identification papers. 

     "I fear that the United States could become a confederation of states enforcing their own immigration laws. That is the same thing the Civil War said you can’t do," Ezra told the State's attorneys.

    

     A similar law attempted by so-called 'Conservatives' in Arizona was struck down in 2012. Similar laws to Texas' were being proposed by other Neocon thugs in Florida, North Carolina, and Louisiana. What ought to shame American Conservatives is that an Attorney for the Texas ACLU had more of a Conservative statement than they have:

     “The federal court’s decision confirms over a century of Supreme Court precedent, affirming that immigration enforcement is squarely within the federal government’s authority. S.B. 4 is a blatantly unconstitutional attempt to bypass federal law."

    Not only is it not a Conservative value to usurp the United States Constitution whenever it's convenient: it's also hardly a Conservative position to authorize police forces to stop and detain anyone at will and demand they present identification papers. Unfortunately, today, we don't have anything like an actual Conservative party anymore: since the first Bush Administration, Conservatives have felt totally at ease with expanding the Police/Surveillance State whenever one of their gauleiters declare "a national emergency." We saw it again and again: during the Drug War; post-9/11; the Scamdemic---today it's "an immigrant invasion" which is just about as fake a pretext as the others were. 

   The Neocons and their Alpha Alt-Right confederates believe (so they say) in smaller government, so naturally all of these tight new immigration laws they have planned will be farmed out to private prison and security industries, which give this party a lot of financial support. Some of the policies that they've been yakking about during the 2024 campaign would involve a massive expansion of the Police State; including mandatory identification papers, detention camps, criminalizing religious and charitable institutions, and likely facilitate the shift to digital currency "to combat workplaces hiring illegals," of course. 

    A real Conservative position would be to enact sensible immigration laws, with amnesty for those already here and contributing, a stronger presence at our borders, and shutting down swine like George Soros and his Neocon pals who are creating Border surges. But that wouldn't be Alpha enough for our new breed of realistic Republicans: as we saw in our last post, they are just as committed to destroying democracy as the Left is---provided that they get to destroy it and be the power-brokers themselves instead.