Texas Governor Invokes Invasion Clause to Push Back Migrants Crossing Border

[mystery-ak]

Texas Governor Invokes Invasion Clause to Push Back Migrants Crossing Border

Bob Price 15 Nov 2022

Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced he is invoking the “Invasion Clauses of the U.S. and Texas Constitutions” to protect the state from the record-setting influx of migrants. Nearly two-thirds of all migrants illegally crossing the border enter through the five Texas-Based Border Patrol sectors.

Governor Abbott tweeted on Tuesday morning that he invoked the Invasion Clauses of the U.S. and Texas Constitutions in order to protect citizens of the State of Texas from the continuing border crisis created by changes in border security and immigration policies under the Biden administration.

https://twitter.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/1592553350129909762

more
https://www.breitbart.com/border/2022/11/15/texas-governor-invokes-invasion-clause-to-push-back-migrants-crossing-border/

[Kamaji]

Good.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Greg Abbott
@GregAbbott_TX

I invoked the Invasion Clauses of the U.S. & Texas Constitutions to fully authorize Texas to take unprecedented measures to defend our state against an invasion.

I'm using that constitutional authority, & other authorization & Executive Orders to keep our state & country safe:



11:21 AM · Nov 15, 2022   Twitter Web App

[Fishrrman]

Nice move, but...

... WHY didn't you do this two years ago?

[Texas Yellow Rose]

Nice move, but...

... WHY didn't you do this two years ago?

 

[libertybele]

 

....waiting for pushback from the Feds.  Abbott/TX just may be sued.

[Elderberry]

Constitution of the United States

Article IV

Section 4

The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.

THE TEXAS CONSTITUTION

ARTICLE 4. EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT

Sec. 7.  GOVERNOR AS COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF MILITARY FORCES.  He shall be Commander-in-Chief of the military forces of the State, except when they are called into actual service of the United States.  He shall have power to call forth the militia to execute the laws of the State, to suppress insurrections, and to repel invasions. 

[Texas Yellow Rose]

Constitution of the United States

Article IV

Section 4

The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.

THE TEXAS CONSTITUTION

ARTICLE 4. EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT

Sec. 7.  GOVERNOR AS COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF MILITARY FORCES.  He shall be Commander-in-Chief of the military forces of the State, except when they are called into actual service of the United States.  He shall have power to call forth the militia to execute the laws of the State, to suppress insurrections, and to repel invasions.

[Sighlass]

Yeah, we all know the feds/courts will somehow raise a hand to slap this down. Just burns me up.

[Elderberry]

Yeah, we all know the feds/courts will somehow raise a hand to slap this down. Just burns me up.

Are you saying that he shouldn't even try?

[Fishrrman]

Sighass sighs:
"Yeah, we all know the feds/courts will somehow raise a hand to slap this down"

Texas should defy the courts and the feds.
Even at the risk of provoking some kind of "Constitutional Crisis".

That's the only way this issue will get pushed to a possible resolution.

But you know the state will back down.
And ultimately... it will all be for nuthin' more "than show"...