Siege Of The Alamo

(Siege Of The Alamo)

Any visitor to Downtown San Antonio will recognize the City's most famous landmark, the Alamo. An old Spanish mission that means "Cottonwood" in English was the site where the likes of Jim Bowie, William Barrett Travis and Davy Crockett and about another 185 Texians defended the Mission and its compound for thirteen days against the Army of General Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana and his 5,000 troops. The garrison was finally reduced on March 6, 1836. However, the Texian defeat at the Alamo and another one at Goliad, bought time for General Sam Houston time to fall back and then face Santa Ana at San Jacinto. There, Houston's army surprised the Mexicans and yelling "Remember the Alamo, Remember Goliad !" all but wiped out the Mexican force. Santa Ana was captured and was forced to recognize the Republic of Texas.

Which is now the State of Texas and, like 1836 Texas War of Independence, there is a new invasion from Mexico. Not the armed body of Santa Ana but millions of illegal aliens that have been allowed into the country by the Biden Administration. As Texas is the point in border state, the Lone Star State has placed "impediments" to migrant entry. The long-term solution has always been a permanent physical barrier but, in the meantime, Texas is laying miles of razor wire along its border, closing Shelby Park, a point of migrant entry.

The Biden Administration then sued Texas and ordered the state re-grant access to Border Patrol access to be able to cut the wire, but a ruling from the Supreme Court, however, ordered that the Texas National Guard and Department of Public Safety allow the agents access. In the meantime, Texas is continuing to lay wire and, in an interesting twist, the border agents in question are refusing to interfere in Texas' action.

The Texas Governor, Greg Abbot who has been the proponent of securing Texas' border, independent of federal action, claims the Lone Star State has authority under the U.S. Constitution under Article I. When the Supreme Court rules on the merit of the case, depending on that decision, things will proceed from there.

In the interval, Texas will continue to make its own immigration policy and restrict illegal migrants' entry. contravening the Administration. There is a common saying here: "Don't Mess With Texas." Or, equally defiant, the "Come and Take" slogan after Texians seized two artillery pieces in Gonzales. Now, that could just as easily apply to an admonition to the Biden Administration.