Michael Karlis
A pickup emblazoned with pro-TEXIT insignia is parked exterior a Backyard Inn in San Antonio forward of a TNM assembly.
Unable to persuade Lone Star State leaders to carry a referendum on seceding from the USA, the Texas Nationalist Motion (TNM) has turned its consideration south.
TNM President Daniel Miller declared his group’s help for alleged secessionists in North Mexico in a weird video shared Tuesday on YouTube. In it, Miller inspired Northern Mexican states to interrupt off from that nation’s federal authorities in Mexico Metropolis.
Miller’s argument — or the closest we will determine — seems to be that the border disaster can solely be stopped if Texas leaves the USA and Northern Mexican states additionally break away from their union.
“Our shared border has grow to be a battleground for a disaster that impacts each of our lands,” Miller mentioned within the five-and-a-half-minute clip. “This has grown to grow to be a nationwide safety disaster, a public security disaster, a public well being disaster and a humanitarian disaster unprecedented in our historical past … . This is the reason as we speak I’m asserting that the Texas Nationalist Motion is providing its full help to this motion in its mission to claim the independence of the northern states of Mexico.”
Miller did not specify which Mexican states are actively searching for independence nor what teams are carrying on this supposed battle for independence.
Certainly, the Present discovered no info on considerably sized independence actions working in Northern Mexico. The TNM did not instantly reply to the Present’s request for additional rationalization.
Simply the identical, Miller asserted that if such teams do exist, they will rely the TNM’s wholehearted help.
“We pledge to offer help, experience and solidarity to our neighbors of their pursuit of a peaceable, democratic and authorized pathway to independence,” he declared.
The TNM’s pledged help for Mexico’s breakup comes because the motion gears up for the Texas GOP Convention in San Antonio subsequent month. In a fundraising e mail despatched out in March, TNM organizers mentioned they’re sending a “huge variety of pro-TEXIT delegates to the conference” to “strike again on the institution.”
Nonetheless, the notion of Texas independence lacks broad help — even contained in the Lone Star State. A current ballot performed by UK-based Redfield and Wiltson Methods and Newsweek discovered that 67% of probably Texas voters, if given the selection, would stay a part of the USA.
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