State of disorder: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s latest demagoguery

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is up to it again, signing an unlawful new state law to make crossing into the country illegally a state misdemeanor. We don’t expect it to last much beyond when the ink has dried. Regular readers might recall that, for well more than a year now, we’ve been warning that Abbott’s immigration demagoguery wouldn’t stop and in fact would only intensify as long as he faced few consequences for it. New Yorkers are probably most familiar with his busing of thousands of migrants north to the city, arguably the genesis of the broader wave of arrivals that has come to dominate pol...