Abbott: Texas Has A Constitutional Right To Defend Its Sovereignty
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued a statement on Wednesday asserting that the Lone Star State has a constitutional right to defend its sovereignty in the wake of an invasion facilitated by... Biden's open border policies...
According to the Washington Examiner, more than 10 million illegal immigrants [illegal alien invaders] have been apprehended by U.S. border officials since Biden assumed the presidency in January 2021. Those figures don’t even include the estimated 1.7 million “gotaways” who evaded capture upon illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border...
The Texas governor further underscored the federal government’s obligation to defend states from invasion and the states’ right to defend their sovereignty from outside forces, citing Article IV, § 4, and Article I, § 10, Clause 3, of the U.S. Constitution. While the former stipulates that the federal government “shall protect each [State] against invasion,” the latter recognizes “the States’ sovereign interest in protecting their borders.”...
“For these reasons, I have already declared an invasion under Article I, § 10, Clause 3 to invoke Texas’s constitutional authority to defend and protect itself,” he continued. “That authority is the supreme law of the land and supersedes any federal statutes to the contrary. The Texas National Guard, the Texas Department of Public Safety, and other Texas personnel are acting on that authority, as well as state law, to secure the Texas border.”...
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Here Are All The States Standing With Texas Against Biden’s Border Assault, The Federalist, 26 January 2024:
Gov. Abbott Is Right: Texas Has The Right To Defend Itself And Secure Its Border, by John Daniel Davidson, The Federalist, 25 January 2024:
States have a fundamental right of self-defense that transcends the authority of the president and the Supreme Court.
The constitutional crisis that’s been building at the southern border reached a sharp point on Wednesday when Texas Gov. Greg Abbott asserted his state’s right to defend itself against invasion, arguing the Biden administration has “broken the compact between the United States and the States.”...
It’s not an overstatement to say this is the worst constitutional crisis since the Civil War and that we’re in uncharted waters now...
It shouldn’t have come to this, but Biden has not only refused to enforce federal immigration laws, his administration has been blatantly violating them for three years, triggering the worst illegal immigration crisis in U.S. history. Texas has borne the brunt of Biden’s dereliction of duty, and Abbott has at last decided to do something about it....
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Tucker Carlson Interviews Texas Governor Greg Abbott, "We are Prepared for Conflict with Federal Authorities", 26 January 2024:
The United States is Facing a New and Imminent Danger, letter from former national security officials, 17 January 2024.
