How is setting up “national defense areas” in border states not a violation of the sovereignty of New Mexico, or whatever border state they are in? These was unthinkable last year, and every year before it since the Treaty of Guadalupe.
Truly, this boggles my mind, and has me thinking of what Jefferson Davis or John C. Calhoun would say, or even George Wallace. The states' rights folks whould be raging in the streets. It's also getting periolously close to treading all over the The Posse Comitatus Act.
The national defense areas in New Mexico and Texas bring up some interesting questions, including how the population in those zones are counted (as residents of New Mexico and Texas, still, or as residents of the militarized zone), and how that will affect a lot of other residency-based things, not the least of which is how it affects the numbers for representation in the House. Who is responsible for paying for the infrastructure in these zones? Who is responsible for the downstream (literal and figurative) messes that are created by this initiative? Are the states owed reasonable market compensation for what is essentially a militirized application of eminent domain? What happens when a legal resident enters the area?
