The Supreme Court may have ruled on Monday that the U.S. Border Patrol can remove Texas' barriers at the Mexican border, but it looks like Texas Governor Greg Abbott isn't gonna just let the feds come in and push him around. As he said on Monday night, "This is not over."
So here we are today and we have this beauty of a statement from Abbott, which kinda tells me he's up for the fight if Joe Biden wants to have it in an election year.
Forgive me, but let me post large sections of this statement from Abbott, with minimal commentary.
The federal government has broken the compact between the United States and the States. The Executive Branch of the United States has a constitutional duty to enforce federal laws protecting States, including immigration laws on the books right now. President Biden has refused to enforce those laws and has even violated them. The result is that he has smashed records for illegal immigration.
Despite having been put on notice in a series of letters — one of which I delivered to him by hand — President Biden has ignored Texas's demand that he perform his constitutional duties.
Next, Abbott is going to specifically document the ways in which Biden has violated his oath and destroyed the sovereign borders of the US and Texas.
• President Biden has violated his oath to faithfully execute immigration laws enacted by Congress. Instead of prosecuting immigrants for the federal crime of illegal entry, President Biden has sent his lawyers into federal courts to sue Texas for taking action to secure the border.
• President Biden has instructed his agencies to ignore federal statutes that mandate the detention of illegal immigrants. The effect is to illegally allow their en masse parole into the United States.
• By wasting taxpayer dollars to tear open Texas's border security infrastructure, President Biden has enticed illegal immigrants away from the 28 legal entry points along this State's southern border — bridges where nobody drowns — and into the dangerous waters of the Rio Grande.
Everything that the Left is trying to pin on Abbott and Texas? Yeah, it's all because of Biden. Abbott is trying to close the border and funnel all illegal entries to official ports so that they can at least be screened before entering.
Abbott further argues that the Constitution is on his side.
James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and the other visionaries who wrote the U.S. Constitution foresaw that States should not be left to the mercy of a lawless president who does nothing to stop external threats like cartels smuggling millions of illegal immigrants across the border. That is why the Framers included both Article IV, § 4, which promises that the federal government "shall protect each [State] against invasion," and Article I, § 10, Clause 3, which acknowledges "the States' sovereign interest in protecting their borders." Arizona v. United States, 567 U.S. 387, 419 (2012) (Scalia, J., dissenting).
The failure of the Biden Administration to fulfill the duties imposed by Article IV, § 4 has triggered Article I, § 10, Clause 3, which reserves to this State the right of self-defense. 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. 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.
As a sign of things to come, Texas National Guard hasn't been moved, as the Supreme Court and Biden would like.
We got this from the border on Tuesday:
And Wednesday:
Yes, the Texas National Guard will continue to guard the nation.
And it's working.
Go, Greg Abbott! Go, Texas!
The border will be fortified. Biden can come and try to tear it down if he wants!
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