He instructed the governmental oversight committee to study the implications of adding to Texas “one or more contiguous counties of New Mexico” and the process to do so, after welcoming a proposal out of New Mexico to allow its counties to band together and secede. While the Texas-New Mexico boundary is unlikely to shift next year, the proposal will likely appeal to pro-secessionists in Texas, some of whom are among Burrows’ conservative skeptics.


This is about a New Mexico county’s secession to become apart of Texas, not secession from the US.
I’m positive that’s verboten as well. The constitution is quite clear that this requires the approval of Congress.
Yes, which i assume will be the finding of whoever was assigned to layout the process
No, they would be apart from the US, but joined with Texas.