Russians are sharing their glee on social media over the U.S. border crisis, expressing their support for the Lone Star State to declare independence from the United States.
The Texas Nationalist Movement (TNM), also known as TEXIT, is the largest organization promoting that the state leave the U.S. A Supreme Court decision on January 22 to allow federal officials to remove parts of a razor-wire barrier that Texas Governor Greg Abbott had installed along the border with Mexico to deter illegal migration emboldened the case.
Newsweek reached out to Abbott’s office for comment on Friday by email.
Abbott has said the wire installed in Texas is an effective deterrent to the “illegal crossings” that President Joe Biden encourages. Abbott and Biden have repeatedly clashed over border issues and the Republican governor’s measures to fight illegal immigration in the state. An influx of people have crossed the border from Mexico into Texas.
Per the 1869 U.S. Supreme Court case Texas vs. White , all individual states, including Texas, are prohibited from unilaterally deciding to secede from the United States. It held that the U.S. is “an indestructible union” from which no state can secede.