Gov. Abbott Stands His Ground

[Elderberry]

Border Patrol agents 'absolutely' don't want to cut Texas razor wire, BUT ...

WND By Jennie Taer Daily Caller News Foundation 1/24/2024

'We have an obligation to follow a legal order'

Border Patrol agents don’t want to cut Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s border wire after the Supreme Court ordered that the federal government can take it down, National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

The Supreme Court ruled Monday that federal authorities can take down wire that Texas erected along the southern border, but the state is putting up more wire in Eagle Pass, Texas, at Shelby Park, which it took control of earlier this month. Border Patrol agents largely support Texas’ efforts, several rank-and-file agents recently told the DCNF .

“Agents absolutely do not want to cut the razor wire, but we have an obligation to follow a legal order,” Judd told the DCNF. “We will continue to put as much pressure on the admin to fix the crisis as we can. That will not change.”

More: https://www.wnd.com/2024/01/border-patrol-agents-absolutely-dont-want-cut-texas-razor-wire/

Charlotte Cuthbertson
@charlottecuthbo

Today, Texas National Guard is busy putting up more razor wire and barriers at Shelby Park in Eagle Pass Texas.

https://twitter.com/charlottecuthbo/status/1749865522596921697

[Elderberry]

Ron DeSantis
@GovRonDeSantis

If the Constitution really made states powerless to defend themselves against an invasion, it wouldn’t have been ratified in the first place and Texas would have never joined the union when it did. 

TX is upholding the law while Biden is flouting it. 

FL will keep assisting Texas with personnel and assets.

https://twitter.com/GovRonDeSantis/status/1750292966067851637

[Smokin Joe]

Go Ron!!!!  He is absolutely correct and is standing by the Constitution and states' rights.

[christian]

The one party government is guilty of treason, failing and refusing to defend America from foreign invasion, only defending national defenses/borders of foreign nations like Afghanistan.  Abandoning Americans like Biden did in Afghanistan and hitlery abandoned our embassy.  They are our real enemies within our gates.  Our enemy government who rules here against us American citizens/American interests.

[Smokin Joe]

Border Patrol agents 'absolutely' don't want to cut Texas razor wire, BUT ...

WND By Jennie Taer Daily Caller News Foundation 1/24/2024

'We have an obligation to follow a legal order'

Border Patrol agents don’t want to cut Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s border wire after the Supreme Court ordered that the federal government can take it down, National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

The Supreme Court ruled Monday that federal authorities can take down wire that Texas erected along the southern border, but the state is putting up more wire in Eagle Pass, Texas, at Shelby Park, which it took control of earlier this month. Border Patrol agents largely support Texas’ efforts, several rank-and-file agents recently told the DCNF .

“Agents absolutely do not want to cut the razor wire, but we have an obligation to follow a legal order,” Judd told the DCNF. “We will continue to put as much pressure on the admin to fix the crisis as we can. That will not change.”

More: https://www.wnd.com/2024/01/border-patrol-agents-absolutely-dont-want-cut-texas-razor-wire/

Charlotte Cuthbertson
@charlottecuthbo

Today, Texas National Guard is busy putting up more razor wire and barriers at Shelby Park in Eagle Pass Texas.

https://twitter.com/charlottecuthbo/status/1749865522596921697

How is an order to aid and abet the commission of felonies (each illegal invader is one) a legal order?  There is no  obligation.

[mystery-ak]

topics merged

[Elderberry]

GOP Governors Support Texas Gov. Abbott’s Efforts to Secure Border

Legal Insurrection by Mary Chastain Thursday, January 25, 2024

IMPORTANT: Abbott is *not* defying SCOTUS. The SCOTUS order means the feds can cut wire. It doesn’t say TX cannot install more wire or keep the feds away.

Republican governors and lawmakers have supported Texas Gov. Greg Abbott as the state adds more concertina wire after SCOTUS gave border patrol permission to cut the wire.

“James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and other visionaries who wrote the 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,” stated Abbott. “That is why the Framers included both Article IV, § 4, which promises that the federal government ‘shall protect each [State] against invasion’ and Article I, § 10, Clause 3, which acknowledges the ‘the States’ sovereign interest in protecting their borders.’ Arizona v. United States, 567 U.S. 387, 419 (2012)(Scalia, J., dissenting).”

Abbott isn’t even defying the SCOTUS order. SCOTUS vacated an injunction from the 5th Circuit that prevented border agents from cutting the wire except in the case of a medical emergency.

The order does not say Texas cannot add more wire. The order does not say that Texas has to give the border patrol access to the wire.

Utah Gov. Spencer J. Cox
@GovCox
The border is a disaster that continues to spiral out of control, both in terms of people and deadly fentanyl traffic. This is not a partisan issue. This is a national security issue. This is a common sense issue. This is an American issue.

Utah thanks Texas and Gov. Abbott for stepping up where the Biden Administration has failed over and over again.

https://twitter.com/GovCox/status/1750380041312297360

Brian Kemp
@BrianKempGA

Enough is enough. Our southern border is in crisis thanks to the Biden administration’s refusal to do their job.

@GregAbbott_TX
 and the state of Texas have our full support.

More: https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/01/gop-governors-support-texas-gov-abbotts-efforts-to-secure-border/

[Elderberry]

Top general: Texas has constitutional right to defend itself!

WND 1/25/2024

Biden has allowed invasion of millions through open border policies

Days ago, the Supreme Court ruled that the feds could cut the razor wire installed by Texas on its border with Mexico to protect its citizens from an invasion.

But that ruling, according to Gen. Michael Flynn, a military expert and President Trump’s early national security adviser, will be “one of the court’s most cowardly decisions” and it actually could “doom our nation.”

If it stands.

Because Texas has a right to defend itself.

He writes in a commentary at the Western Journal the decision wasn’t just about razor wire.

”It was about the role of states in our federal system and the betrayal of the nation — first by a president, and now by two Republican-appointed justices.”

He noted it was Biden who demanded that the nation’s southern border be open for illegal aliens to enter, more or less at will.

”This statement was so absurd that we knew at once that this man who had somehow assumed the presidency was not on our side. Biden had just sworn the president’s constitutionally prescribed oath to ‘preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States,’ and within hours he had flung open the nation’s borders to all comers,” he noted.

He noted media criticism of Trump’s plan to spend $11 billion on a wall. But he said Biden’s plan is estimated to cost taxpayers $451 billion.

”Biden opened the door, and over 3.8 million people walked through. That number of illegals is greater than the population of 22 states and is on the verge of destroying the nation in every way by causing crime, drug deaths, child trafficking, terrorism, deficit spending and more. He could not have done any more damage to the nation if he had tried.”

The general said the ruling “deserves as much respect as its Dred Scott decision that no African-American could be a citizen, or its Korematsu decision that approved locking up Japanese-Americans during World War II, or its Roe v. Wade decision that led to the death of well over 40 million babies.”

A commentary at the Liberty Daily called the fight the most important political war in ages.

”I cringe when I hear about this or that being the most important battle in generations… except for now since I’m the one saying it. The battle between Texas and the United States government, between Governor Greg Abbott and Joe Biden, really is the most important political battle in ages. It’s not just our sovereignty at stake with a border invasion in progress. That alone is huge. It’s also the constitutional debate over state’s rights. It’s also the incessant question about judicial supremacy,” the commentary said.

More: https://www.wnd.com/2024/01/military-expert-says-texas-constitutional-right-defend/

[mystery-ak]

https://twitter.com/simonateba/status/1750621519129027032

[mystery-ak]

Jack Poso 🇺🇸
@JackPosobiec
·
8h
Invasion is an act of war

Aiding an invasion is treason

That's all it is

[roamer_1]

  That's another 8 governor's who have joined.  Truly important.  Half the country is now taking sides with TX.   

Civil war anyone??

Huh. The Rockies (less CO of course), the Northern Plains, and the South. No surprise there except KS.

But it ain't civil war.

This is nullification, and the proper form of it.

[roamer_1]

There is, no doubt, a right of way, for wont of a better term, which necessarily falls within the jurisdiction of the federal government in every legal sense...

But there is also a setback from that right of way that absolutely belongs to the state, and there ain't a damn thing the feds can do about what the state erects there.

[Elderberry]

                                                                    Border Crisis

Gov. Abbott Is Right: Texas Has The Right To Defend Itself And Secure Its Border

The Federalist  By: John Daniel Davidson January 25, 2024

States have a fundamental right of self-defense that transcends the authority of the president and the Supreme Court.

The constitutional crisis that’s been building at the southern border reached a sharp point on Wednesday when Texas Gov. Greg Abbott asserted his state’s right to defend itself against invasion, arguing the Biden administration has “broken the compact between the United States and the States.”

It’s not an overstatement to say this is the worst constitutional crisis since the Civil War and that we’re in uncharted waters now. There have been times in our history when a state has defied the enforcement of federal laws, but we’ve never faced a situation where the federal government has refused to enforce its laws and even violated them. And because the border crisis involves the question of security, Abbott’s assertion of state authority cuts right to the heart of the question at hand, which is one of first principles: Does a polity have the right to defend itself, to preserve its existence in the face of invasion?

The answer is, of course, yes. The preservation of the polity must come before process arguments about whose job it is to enforce federal immigration laws. The state of Texas, in this case, has an authority that transcends that of President Biden and the Supreme Court. That’s precisely why the U.S. Constitution includes a clause explicitly recognizing a state’s right to act in self-defense when faced with invasion.

It shouldn’t have come to this, but Biden has not only refused to enforce federal immigration laws, his administration has been blatantly violating them for three years, triggering the worst illegal immigration crisis in U.S. history. Texas has borne the brunt of Biden’s dereliction of duty, and Abbott has at last decided to do something about it.

Specifically, Abbott has ordered the Texas National Guard and other Texas law enforcement agencies under his charge to take control of certain parts of the border, erect barriers, and apprehend those who attempt to enter the state illegally. This week, following the Supreme Court’s decision to side with the Biden administration and vacate an injunction that prohibited the feds from cutting razor wire Texas had placed across a stretch of border, Abbott went a step further. He declared that by failing to fulfill his constitutional duties to protect states from invasion, Biden has triggered Article I, Section 10, Clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution, which stipulates that states are not allowed to “enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded.”

More: https://thefederalist.com/2024/01/25/gov-abbott-is-right-texas-has-the-right-to-defend-itself-and-secure-its-border/

[libertybele]

https://twitter.com/simonateba/status/1750621519129027032

I expect Biden to do just that - but then what about the right of TX to defend itself???

IF SCOTUS would have ruled in TX favor, they'd be looking at a different scenario. 

Meanwhile we still have an invasion and how can SCOTUS justify allowing that to happen?  They can't!!

[Elderberry]

GOP fighting Biden's newest scheme to leave southern border wide open

WND 1/25/2024

Lawmaker plans to ban feds from removing state's razor wire

As part of the Republican Party’s campaign to protect Americans through a secure border with Mexico, they are pushing for a ban that would prevent the feds from removing razor wire the state of Texas has installed to protect its citizens.

Areport from Fox News explains the plan is from rep. Mike Collins, R-Ga.

His legislation would ban federal authorities from removing razor wire or other barriers from the U.S.-Mexico border.

That follows a narrow ruling from the Supreme Court that said federal agents could, in fact, endanger Texans by taking down the security barrier.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has been in a pitched battle with Joe Biden and has dispatched the state National Guard to protect state citizens from the invasion that Biden has allowed to come across the border.

”President Biden is aiding and abetting illegal aliens who are swarming our border and raiding our country’s resources,” Collins explained. “Why else would he try to stop the state of Texas from turning them back to Mexico?”

The proposed Restricting Administration Zealots from Obliging Raiders, or "RAZOR," Act specifically prevents federal authorities like Customs and Border Protection from removing barriers erected by any state.

Biden has demanded that federal agents cut the barriers state officials have put in place to protect the state’s citizens.

Following the Supreme Court decision, Abbott also pointed out that Biden had failed to uphold the nation's compact with Texas “by allowing an invasion of millions of illegal immigrants under the Biden administration.

Abbott charged, “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.”

More: https://www.wnd.com/2024/01/gop-working-fight-bidens-scheme-southern-border-wide-open/

[Elderberry]

Tucker Carlson Calls on 'Men of Texas' To Defend Border

Newsweek 1/23/2024

Tucker Carlson appeared to question the "men of Texas" after America's highest court ruled that miles of barbed wire installed by Texas Governor Greg Abbott could be removed.

Justices ruled 5-4 in favor of the Biden administration, which argued that the area of Eagle Pass should be protected by measures the federal government agreed with, rather than Texas, in order to prevent Border Patrol agents from being granted access to key areas.

Texas said instruments such as razor wire and other measures are useful in keeping people from crossing the border.

A spokesman for Texas Governor Greg Abbott told Newsweek: "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."

Carlson said later on X: "So it's unanimous: everyone in power, from the White House, to the hedge fund managers, to the Supreme Court of the United States has decided to destroy the country by allowing it to be invaded.

"That leaves the population to defend itself. Where are the men of Texas? Why aren't they protecting their state and the nation?"

Newsweek has approached Carlson for comment via direct message on X.

Fears of vigilante groups manning the Texas border have been raised by non-government organizations (NGO) previously and include concern about Texas HB20.

The legislation would create a 'Border Protection Unit.' Republicans had moved the attached language regarding the provision to an amendment of House Bill 7 after House Bill 20 failed to pass in May last year, but the State Senate couldn't agree on the bill in its final shape.

Under the provisions, citizen members of the unit would have the power to "detain persons crossing the Texas-Mexico border unlawfully" and arrest them.

Human Rights Watch slammed the idea, saying, "People serving in the unit would be granted criminal and civil immunity against claims of wrongdoing."

The NGO added that the provisions would give "Texas police power to vigilantes."

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has said it is neighboring Arizona that has been a "hub" for vigilantes looking to police the border, but that "Texas has recently experienced considerable activity."

Appearances of vigilante groups or lone actors relying on their convictions remain a sensitive topic. Governor Greg Abbott was heavily criticized in 2019 when a gunman shot 23 people in El Paso.

A campaign leaflet for the governor appeared that year called on people to "defend" Texas and "take matters into our own hands." Abbott's campaign said it was just normal campaign language.

More: https://www.newsweek.com/texas-border-mexico-supreme-court-tucker-carlson-1863295

[roamer_1]

https://twitter.com/simonateba/status/1750621519129027032

No, he can't. Ultimately the CoC of the Texas Guard is the Governor, not the President. If the President wants to nationalize the Texas Guard, it is only by the Gov's acquiescence.

Get plugged, Plugs...

[Hoodat]

[GtHawk]

Border Patrol agents 'absolutely' don't want to cut Texas razor wire, BUT ...

WND By Jennie Taer Daily Caller News Foundation 1/24/2024

'We have an obligation to follow a legal order'

Border Patrol agents don’t want to cut Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s border wire after the Supreme Court ordered that the federal government can take it down, National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

The Supreme Court ruled Monday that federal authorities can take down wire that Texas erected along the southern border, but the state is putting up more wire in Eagle Pass, Texas, at Shelby Park, which it took control of earlier this month. Border Patrol agents largely support Texas’ efforts, several rank-and-file agents recently told the DCNF .

“Agents absolutely do not want to cut the razor wire, but we have an obligation to follow a legal order,” Judd told the DCNF. “We will continue to put as much pressure on the admin to fix the crisis as we can. That will not change.”

More: https://www.wnd.com/2024/01/border-patrol-agents-absolutely-dont-want-cut-texas-razor-wire/

Charlotte Cuthbertson
@charlottecuthbo

Today, Texas National Guard is busy putting up more razor wire and barriers at Shelby Park in Eagle Pass Texas.

https://twitter.com/charlottecuthbo/status/1749865522596921697

What about their obligation to following their sworn oath:
 OATH OF OFFICE
I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic;
that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental
reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which
I am about to enter. So help me God.
Are they perjurers? If they don't think they need to follow their sworn oath than why should they feel obligated to follow a 'legal order' that makes them facilitators of a foreign invasion?

[Hoodat]

Ok...what are the guesses on what's going to happen here?
1.  Biden comes to his senses and backs down.
2.  This becomes a pissing match and lasts for weeks/months.
3.  There is some type of military confrontation.

My bet is #1.  Not even Biden is stupid enough to cause a military confrontation.

Thoughts?

Or #4, Biden declares Texas 'under rebellion', and their representation in Congress is suspended as well as their electoral votes in the Presidential election.  Trump picks up Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Arizona, but still loses to Biden 251-247.

[Hoodat]

Can he even do this?

You clearly don't understand how fascism works.

[Smokin Joe]

https://twitter.com/simonateba/status/1750621519129027032

The Feds can get to the wire any time--from the other side.

[Smokin Joe]

Or #4, Biden declares Texas 'under rebellion', and their representation in Congress is suspended as well as their electoral votes in the Presidential election.  Trump picks up Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Arizona, but still loses to Biden 251-247.

How many states would follow? What election?

[mountaineer]

End Wokeness
@EndWokeness
10 states with the most guns per capita:

1. Montana (66.4% of adults)
2. Wyoming (66% of adults)
3. Alaska (64.5% of adults)
4. Idaho (60.1% of adults)
5. WV (58.5% of adults)
6. AR (57.2% of adults)
7. MS (56.3% of adults)
8. AL (55.2% of adults)
9. SD (55.1% of adults)
10. ND (55% of adults)

All 10 of these states support the Texas Border Resistance against the federal government.
7:36 AM · Jan 26, 2024

[Elderberry]

House Speaker Mike Johnson Is the Latest to Support Texas on Border Crisis

RedState By Ward Clark 1/25/2024

On Wednesday, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) took to X/Twitter in support of Texas Governor Greg Abbott in the state's confrontation with the Biden Administration. Speaker Johnson has named "...holding Secretary Mayorkis accountable" as the House of Representative's next step.

The Speaker said on X/Twitter:

Speaker Mike Johnson
@SpeakerJohnson
I stand with Governor Abbott. The House will do everything in its power to back him up.

The next step: holding Secretary Mayorkas accountable.

https://twitter.com/SpeakerJohnson/status/1750375316478931298

It is unclear what the House is doing to help Texas in this, other than holding hearings against Homeland Security Chief Alejandro Mayorkis, who is largely seen as the architect of the current calamity on the southern border.

    Removing Mayorkas from his post would have little impact on the feud between Texas and the federal government, even as the GOP argues he should be removed over his handling of the border.

    It’s also unlikely to happen, given that it would require a two-thirds vote in the Democrat-led Senate.

    But Johnson’s support comes as some Democrats have called on President Biden to take a tougher stance with Texas, which through Operation Lone Star has taken a number of measures challenging the federal government.

    That includes placing buoys in the Rio Grande, prompting the federal government to take Texas to court.

    And earlier this month, Texas officials took over a public park on the shores of the Rio Grande in Eagle Pass, using Texas National Guard troops to block the Border Patrol from accessing the park.

As the article notes, any action the House takes will almost certainly die in the Democrat-controlled Senate, especially as the removal of a "civil Officer" under Article 2, Section 4 and Article 1, Section 3, requires a two-thirds of the Senate to approve.

More: https://redstate.com/wardclark/2024/01/25/update-texas-border-crisis-speaker-of-the-house-mike-johnson-supports-texas-n2169211