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You just know that the Brandon administration will not take this well, and will threaten Texas and sue to stop Texas from *checks notes* stopping people from illegally crossing the border

Texas Gov. Abbott tells Biden he is invoking ‘invasion’ clause of Constitution because of border ‘failures’

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has sent a letter to the White House to explain the need for more aggressive efforts to curb illegal immigration into the state.

The letter, addressed to President Joe Biden, accuses the administration of willfully ignoring the ongoing mass influx of illegal immigrants into the U.S. southern states.

“Your inaction has led to catastrophic consequences. Under your watch, America is suffering the highest volume of illegal immigration in the history of our country. This past year, more than 2 million immigrants tried to enter the country illegally, coming from more than 100 countries across the globe,” Abbott wrote in the Wednesday letter. “Worse yet, your failed border policies recently prompted a United Nations agency to declare that the border between the United States and Mexico is the deadliest land crossing in the world.”

Abbott announced Tuesday that he will be invoking an “invasion” clause of both the U.S. Constitution and Texas Constitution to combat ongoing, overwhelming illegal immigration in the state.

The governor noted in his Tuesday announcement a list of intended actions that he claims are covered by the clause, including the activation of National Guard and Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) personnel to safeguard the border and turn back would-be migrants from illegally crossing the border.

Sending illegals to Democrat run cities hasn’t worked, because the Elites in those cities make sure the illegals are housed Over There away from the rich and elites. And often ship them off to the suburbs with zero notice. Abbott has stated that Texas DPS will arrest any illegal they find and return them to the border, along with using gunboats to guard the Rio Grande, as well as declaring Mexican cartels terrorist organizations.

Is this possibly an overreach of power by a state? Potentially, since the U.S. Constitution gives the federal government the authority and duty to secure the border from invasion. But, the federal government has been derelict in it’s duty, really, they’ve enable the invasion, doing everything they can to keep the invasion going. Does a border state have authority to protect itself from invasion from across the international border?

The Texas Constitution’s Article 4, Section 7 also states that the governor, as commander in chief of military forces, “shall have power to call forth the militia to execute the laws of the State, to suppress insurrections, and to repel invasions.”

Now we await Brandon’s response.