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By David Zimmermann

December 29, 2023 11:09 AM

The Department of Justice is threatening to sue Texas if its governor, Greg Abbott (R.), enforces a new immigration law that allows for the arrest and deportation of illegal immigrants, which was enacted last week.
The legislation in question, Senate Bill 4, aims to deter thousands of illegal aliens from crossing the Mexico-Texas border into the U.S. by officially making illegal immigration a state crime. The law would function as a response to the Biden administration’s inaction regarding the crisis. Abbott wanted to give his state control over its own borders, but the Justice Department sees the law as a direct challenge to the federal government.

Over 242,000 illegal immigrants tried crossing the southern border in November, according to the latest monthly numbers provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. That number is expected to rise for the month of December, which has seen over 250,000 migrant encounters at the southern border since December 1, on track to surpass the previous record of nearly 270,000 encounters in September.

In a letter addressed to Abbott and Texas attorney general Ken Paxton (R.) on Thursday, DOJ official Brian Boynton argued that the federal government holds sole authority over immigration enforcement and Texas is encroaching upon that responsibility.

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Re: Justice Department to Sue Texas if Governor Enforces New Border Law
« Reply #1 on: December 31, 2023, 06:27:22 am »
That is like saying the Fed Gov has sole authority over any State Law within the borders of that State: whether those laws be about marijuana consumption, abortion, speed limits, or marriage, to mention a few.
The Constitution names protecting the several States from invasion, whether those invaders are from another State within the Constitutional compact, or whether they are foreign to it.
Now, the Federal Government has not only not prevented such invasions from within (MD, at the onset of the War of Northern Aggression, for instance), but now from without, as the 'jungle drums' beat cadences of hostility once again at the Swamp adjacent to the Tidal Basin.

To say that a State (recalling the original meaning of "State" in the time of the Founding) cannot write and enforce its own laws flies into the face of State sovereignty. Perhaps if the Feds have a problem they can re-route their invading hordes. 
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Re: Justice Department to Sue Texas if Governor Enforces New Border Law
« Reply #2 on: December 31, 2023, 06:53:41 am »
By David Zimmermann

December 29, 2023 11:09 AM

The Department of Justice is threatening to sue Texas if its governor, Greg Abbott (R.), enforces a new immigration law that allows for the arrest and deportation of illegal immigrants, which was enacted last week.

Bring it on.
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