This statement is written — in tone and theory — to emulate the declarations of secession produced by Confederate states in 1860 and 1861. Just swap out slavery for immigration. I assume this is deliberate. 🧵
Abbott's accusation that the federal government has breached the Constitution by having "broken the compact between the United States and the States" is lifted nearly verbatim from South Carolina's 1860 declaration of secession.
In fact, this "compact theory" of the U.S. Constitution was adopted by each seceding state immediately prior to the Civil War. And it is literally Greg Abbott's first sentence. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_t…
Believe people when they tell you
Believe people when they tell you AND follow historians
The Oklahoma governor posted this one hour after Governor Abbott published his statement
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