Not sure why this is unexpected. It is a long-running precedent that the federal government — not individual states — has authority to enforce border security.
” It is a long-running precedent that the federal government — not individual states — has authority to enforce border security.”
Bullcrap. The States also have the right to repel an invasion and always have. This is new but undoubtedly true today. If the Mexican Army rolled in is you position that if the US Government decides not to oppose it, the states cannot?
Article I, Section 10, Clause 3.
“No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, UNLESS ACTUALLY INVADED, or IN IMMINENT DANGER as will not admit of delay.”
10 million flooding in, up to 15,000 a day, utterly unvetted and uncontrolled? That IS an invasion. Hell, Santa Anna only showed up with 2100 soldiers at the Alamo. We get 9 times that many on an average day now. What would it take to call it an invasion?
If the Federal government reneges on it’s CONSTITUTIONAL DUTY to defend the states against invasion, are the states supposed to accept it?
The US Constitution is not a suicide pact.
Was this a ruling about the merits of just whether to leave an injunction in place until they actually hear the case?
“ Not sure why this is unexpected. It is a long-running precedent that the federal government — not individual states — has authority to enforce border security.”
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But does the federal government have the authority to ENFORCE border INsecurity? Because that’s what they are doing…”tear down that wall, Texas, let the invaders in”.
John Roberts delivers for the Bushies once again.
So... put the razor wire, and more, 100 yards inside the Federally enforced border...the feds cannot touch it. It’s state jurisdiction zone. Round em up and ship them back.
The problem is the Federal Government is aggressively acting to violate the very law it is legally REQUIRED to enforce, which in turn is causing demonstrable and immediate harm to the border States, and put the general security and welfare of the Union in peril.
This is a willful abrogation of the Federal Government's Constitutionally required duty an this action by the Supreme Court now puts into question the validity of covenant to witch the various States of the Union belong to.
its not a question of enforcement-its the lack thereof-and whether or not that failure to defend the national border is in of itself a form of forcing a state to secede to protect itself