Texas secessionist claims ‘Texit’ getting ‘closer’ amid border dispute

A leading Texas secessionist has claimed that the Lone Star State’s breakaway from the Union — a movement dubbed “Texit” — “could absolutely be closer than we think” amid Gov. Greg Abbott’s battle with the federal government over control of the border with Mexico.

“We’re at a point where Texit is on everyone’s mind, both those for it and those against it,” Daniel Miller, president of the Texas Nationalist Movement, said on Tuesday’s episode of his “Texas News” podcast.

“The border issue has become at the forefront of the news cycle and Texit has become the natural logical extension of what’s happening down on the border,” he said.

“We’re in the throes of getting what we’ve always talked about, which is a binding vote — a vote on Texas becoming a self-governing, independent nation,” Miller continued.

He went on to praise Abbott for declaring that the Lone Star State’s right to self-defense “supersedes any federal statutes to the contrary” and his refusal to remove a razor-wire barrier, despite the US Supreme Court ruling that it was unconstitutional.

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The Republican governor argued that because the federal government has failed to safeguard Texas from an invasion of migrants crossing the border, the state has the “constitutional authority to defend” itself.

Miller echoed those sentiments in his podcast on Tuesday.

“Every time Texas tries to do something to secure the border, the federal government comes in and interferes; or they’ve previously rendered the Texas efforts so neutered as to basically have Texans — the Texas Military Department and the Department of Public Safety — operating as auxiliaries for the Border Patrol, who are under orders to let them [migrants] across, process them, put them on buses and planes and ship them everywhere,” he said.

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