Texas secessionist claims ‘Texit’ getting ‘closer’ amid border dispute
NY Post
A leading Texas secessionist has claimed that the Lone Star State’s break away from the Union — a movement dubbed “Texit” — “could absolutely be closer than we think” amid Gov. Greg Abbott’s battle with the federal government over control of the border with Mexico.
“We’re at a point where Texit is on everyone’s mind, both those for it and those against it,” Daniel Miller, the president of the Texas Nationalist Movement said on Tuesday’s episode of his “Texas News” podcast.
“The border issue has become at the forefront of the news cycle and Texit has become the natural logical extension of what’s happening down on the border,” he said.
“We’re in the throes of getting what we’ve always talked about, which is a binding vote — a vote on Texas becoming a self-governing independent nation,” Miller continued.
He went on to praise Abbott for declaring that the Lone Star State’s right to self-defense “supersedes any federal statutes to the contrary” and his refusal to remove a razor-wire barrier, despite the US Supreme Court ruling that it was unconstitutional.
The Republican governor argued that because the federal government has failed to safeguard Texas from an invasion of migrants crossing the border, the state has the “constitutional authority to defend” itself.
