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The federal government has broken the compact between the United States and the States.”
On Wednesday, January 24, 2024, Texas governor Greg Abbott asserted his constitutional right to prevent an invasion of his state caused by the failure of the federal government to secure its southern border.
“Under President Biden’s lawless border policies, more than six million illegal immigrants have crossed our southern border in just three years,” Abbott said in a statement. “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 people all across the United States” Abbott continued.
Recent proclamations by political leaders who are diametrically opposed to Abbott on many ideological issues echoed his concerns.
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Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson recently sounded the immigration alarm on CNN, telling the nation “we have roughly 15,000 people living in shelters, temporary shelters, here in Chicago … 27 shelters total and 4,500 children in our Chicago public schools system, needing health care.”
“It won’t just be the city of Chicago that won’t be able to maintain this mission,” Johnson warned. “It’s the entire country that is now at stake.”
New York mayor Eric Adams also broke party lines as his city’s public infrastructure began to crumble. In a recent speech, Adams pulled no punches telling New Yorkers the city had “a $12 billion deficit that we’re going to have to cut — every service in this city is going to be impacted. All of us”
Adams added that the city could be “destroyed” by the immigration crisis.
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Abbott’s proclamation comes after weeks of sparring with the federal government over the state’s ability to erect concertina-wire barricades on its border in areas frequently beached by illegal aliens.
U.S. president Joe Biden has repeatedly ordered his border patrol officials to remove the wire – thus facilitating their illegal entry.
“The Biden administration has repeatedly cut wire that Texas installed to stop illegal crossings, opening the floodgates to illegal immigrants,” said Andrew Mahaleris, a spokesperson for Abbott. “The absence of razor wire and other deterrence strategies encourages migrants to make unsafe and illegal crossings between ports of entry, while making the job of Texas National Guard soldiers and DPS troopers more dangerous and difficult.”
The issue made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled 5-4 to vacate an injunction which had previously barred federal officials from cutting wire placed by state officials.
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Abbott’s statement in response to the ruling was unequivocal in its assertion that Texas has the legal right to enforce its border.
“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,” he said.
Abbott pointed to the Constitution saying, “that is why the framers included both Article IV Section 4, which promises that the federal government ‘shall protect each [State] against invasion.'”
He also cited the third clause of Article I Section 10, which acknowledges “the state’s sovereign interest in protecting their borders.”
“The failure of the Biden administration to fulfill the duties imposed by Article IV Section 4 has triggered Article I Section 10 Clause Three, which reserves to this state the right of self-defense,” Abbott said. “For these reasons, I have already declared an invasion under Article I Section 10 Clause Three to invoke Texas’s constitutional authority to defend and protect itself.”
“That authority is the supreme law of the land and supersedes any federal statues to the contrary,” Abbott added. “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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Texas Congressman Chip Roy agreed the state has a solemn duty under the Constitution to protect its citizens.
“There is no exception to that, and if the Supreme Court wants to ignore that truth, which a slim majority did, Texas leaders still have the duty to defend their people,” Roy told Fox News
Roy didn’t mince words, telling the national audience the situation is “like, if someone’s breaking into your house, and the court says, ‘Oh, sorry. You can’t defend yourself.’ What do you tell the court? You tell the court to go to hell, you defend yourself and then figure it out later.”
Abbott has friends outside of Texas too, South Carolina attorney general Alan Wilson released a statement affirming his support of the governor.
“We fully support Texas in its fight,” Wilson said. “There is a crisis at our southern border, and it must be secured.”
South Carolina governor Henry McMaster previously committed S.C. National Guard troops to defend the southern border, saying at the time that “the safety and security of South Carolinians require that we stop the drug cartels, criminals, and terrorists from entering our country to peddle their poison.”
Members of the S.C. Freedom Caucus called on McMaster to publicly reaffirm his support for the governor in a statement released today.
Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt was the first governor to announce he was supporting Abbott.
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The massive policy failures that have facilitated the American border crisis have also been foisted onto the rest of the Western world.
The Netherlands experienced its highest net migration figure in two decades in 2022, while the Italian island of Lampedusa struggled to deal with 12,000 illegal immigrants (double the island’s population) arriving over the span of one week.
According to a November 24, 2023 report in The Wall Street Journal, the Swedish government has blamed its rising crime rate on the failure of migrant communities to integrate, while the German government cites hundreds of thousands of unemployed refugees in explaining its diminished economic output figures.
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The coalition pushing these open borders policies come from a number of political corners – corporatists, partisan Democrats and globalists, all working in concert to flood the West with illegal immigrants.
Corporatists see a constant influx of unskilled labor as essential in keeping production costs low. The Republican mega-donor Koch brothers have waged a multi-year campaign to engender support for the policies that would grant amnesty to illegal immigrants.
The Koch Brothers (and their fellow monied corporatists) exert enormous control over many of our nation’s “conservative” lawmakers, as is evidenced by Republican lawmakers stymieing of former U.S. president Donald Trump‘s attempts to pass border reform while Republicans held the House, Senate and the White House.
Partisan Democrats are equally interested in importing massive numbers of illegal immigrants to bolster their future electoral prospects.
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Perhaps the most frightening part of this open borders coalition are the globalists – the class of individuals whose vision of the future is truly post-national.
A homogeneous global order is impossible in a world compromised of strong sovereign nations.
As mayors Adams and Johnson correctly warned, however, these policies are on a course to literally “destroy” our nation, a necessary step in ushering in a post-national future.
These individuals see our representative democracy and Republic of sovereign states as an obstacle to their ability to technocratically control the Western world through NGO‘s, control of capital markets, and international institutions like the EU and WHO.
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All of this is deeply disturbing, a genuine threat to the stability of our country in coming years, and a call to action for those who’d like to have a functional Western world to leave to our children.
It is incumbent on leaders at the local, state and federal levels to everything in their power to reverse course before this travesty further endangers our future.
Greg Abbott’s bold assertion of the inalienable rights of the state to protect its citizens may be the first step towards realizing this reversal.
Count on FITSNews for continued coverage of America’s escalating border crisis …
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR …
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Dylan Nolan is the director of special projects at FITSNews. He graduated from the Darla Moore school of business in 2021 with an accounting degree. Got a tip or story idea for Dylan? Email him here. You can also engage him socially @DNolan2000.
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13 comments
Ms Nolan certainly was raised by the internet.
You can bet Ms Nolan has some “interesting” views on our Jewish friends when behind closed doors ;-)
So what if they do? You can bet there are plenty of Talmudic Joos behind this and many other evils currently plaguing western civilization. Their love of money and greed has been behind these type problems for centuries yet anyone who dares to speak less than glowingly of them is berated as less than human.
Okay, Adolph. Back to your bunker.
Typical ignorant Joo worshiper comment.
Welp, getting a basic ass anti-Semite to type something dumb and completely unoriginal. wasn’t hard.
You certainly are a ‘typical’ Republican ;-)
“Their love of money and greed has been behind these type problems for centuries”
You aren’t describing Jewish people. You’re describing capital in general.
Godspeed to your nearest milkshake enjoyer, disgusting Nazi.
Hey Opie, Dementia J Trump has told the rest of the GQP not to do anything about the border situation before the election.
It’s an election year crisis.
Great summary of the situation. Another aspect I believe that is behind the mass migration is to get the male immigrants to sign up for our military. We know of an immigrant who came here for college and then signed up with the army to fast-track getting his green card. He’s a nice guy but is fine with communism since that’s the form of government he comes from. This could end up being the globalists/leftists forming their own military to fight against us.
lol
More Gen Z identify as LQBTQ+ than Republican or white Christian.
It’s outdated bigotry that’s being replaced with smarter happier people.
Abbott and Paxton deserve their own secure border, facilitated by a shared cell in a federal prison.
Republicans had two years under GW and two years under Trump when they controlled the House, Senate, and Presidency. They could have passed any immigration reforms they wanted and yet did nothing. Why? My guess is the monied interests in construction and agricultural industries don’t want reform. Add that to the fact that Republicans want the border as an issue to scare people and you get no action from them. The only people stupid enough to believe Republicans are serious about immigration reform are the low information Republican voters.
My thoughts exactly, Drumph! I voted for Trump in 2016. After four years of watching his failure to launch as a leader or a President, never again.
None Of The Above for President!
One more vote for Biden!