Over the past month, Greg Abbott, the inexcusable governor of Texas, has adopted his own Articles of Confederation, defying the federal government while pursuing a ruthless campaign against migrants on the southern border. The enabling legislation for said campaign is Texas Senate Bill 4, due to activate on March 4. SB4 is as direct an assault on the Supremacy Clause as this country has seen since an earlier Texas legislature ran Governor Sam Houston out of office on the brink of the Civil War. It set up a state deportation scheme despite the fact that immigration is now, and ever has been, a federal matter. Abbott essentially decided that Texas should have its own foreign policy.
