Governor Abbott: When, in the Course of Human Events....

Governor Abbott writes that the federal government has "broken the compact" under which states agreed to loan power to a central government.

It has, as one person said, a definite "When, in the course of Human Events..." steel to it.

G O V E R N O R G R E G A B B O T T
January 24, 2024

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.

* 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.

Under President Biden's lawless border policies, more than 6 million illegal immigrants have crossed our southern border in just 3 years. That is more than the population of 33 different States in this country. This illegal refusal to protect the States has inflicted unprecedented harm on the People all across the United
States.

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, sec. 4, which promises that the federal government "shall protect each [State] against invasion," and Article I, sec 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, sec. 4 has triggered Article I, sec. 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, sec. 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.

Greg Abbott
Governor of Texas

I don't know if this invokes new action at all, as he just announces that he's already declared an invasion. He does seem to be threatening that his police and agents will act to defend Texas, and will ignore any federal statute which presumes to tell them they may not defend their own land. Declaring the state's power to defend itself to be supreme to any federal "law" is a big declaration.

Will anything concrete flow from that? I don't know. Maybe this is just saber-rattling.

Sometimes you do need to rattle the saber. Sometimes you even need to draw it out.

The Arizona Republican Party head who attempted to bribe Kari Lake promising money and sinecures from unnamed money men "back east" has resigned:

And the Ohio legislature overturned the veto of the neoliberal c*nt governor:

"Transgender care" means, apparently, injecting lonely, socially-isolated autistic children with irreversible hormone blockers and sterilizing agents, and even giving them experimental amputations.

Today is a good day.

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 06:00 PM

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