Posted on 01/25/2024 7:06:12 AM PST by ShadowAce
Hyperbole has never been my style. I balk every four years when I hear how THIS presidential election is the most important of our lifetime. Passionate political commentators have said that about every election since Bush-Dukakis.
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.
For a quick recap of what led to this, Texas started putting up defensive measures to seal off parts of the southern border. This included razor wire, which has been proven to be a great deterrent except when Customs and Border Protection agents step in to help the invaders. The Supreme Court, thanks to an unexpected (for some) leftist stance by Justice Amy Coney Barrett, ruled that the federal government could cut the wires.
DC, on cue, started cutting. So Abbott started putting up even more razor wire.
The Biden-Harris regime made threats. Governor Abbott released a defiant and important statement:
The federal government has broken the compact between the United States and the States. 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. The result is that he has smashed records for illegal immigration.
Despite having been put on notice in a series of letters—one of which I delivered to him by hand—President Biden has ignored Texas’s demand that he perform his constitutional duties.
- President Biden has violated his oath to faithfully execute immigration laws enacted by Congress. Instead of prosecuting immigrants for the federal crime of illegal entry, President Biden has sent his lawyers into federal courts to sue Texas for taking action to secure the border.
- President Biden has instructed his agencies to ignore federal statutes that mandate the detention of illegal immigrants. The effect is to illegally allow their en masse parole into the United States.
- By wasting taxpayer dollars to tear open Texas’s border security infrastructure, President Biden has enticed illegal immigrants away from the 28 legal entry points along this State’s southern border—bridges where nobody drowns—and into the dangerous waters of the Rio Grande.
Under President Biden’s lawless border policies, more than 6 million illegal immigrants have crossed our southern border in just 3 years. That is more than the population of 33 different States in this country. This illegal refusal to protect the States has inflicted unprecedented harm on the People all across the United States.
James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and the other visionaries who wrote the U.S. 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. 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 States’ sovereign interest in protecting their borders.” Arizona v. United States, 567 U.S. 387, 419 (2012) (Scalia, J., dissenting).
The failure of the Biden Administration to fulfill the duties imposed by Article IV, § 4 has triggered Article I, § 10, Clause 3, which reserves to this State the right of self-defense. For these reasons, I have already declared an invasion under Article I, § 10, Clause 3 to invoke Texas’s constitutional authority to defend and protect itself. That authority is the supreme law of the land and supersedes any federal statutes to the contrary. The Texas National Guard, the Texas Department of Public Safety, and other Texas personnel are acting on that authority, as well as state law, to secure the Texas border.
Over the years, I have been a harsh critic of Greg Abbott’s. I believe that he acts way too slowly, reacting to pressure instead of proactively addressing issues. Even in this scenario we can argue that the border crisis has been blatantly apparent since 2022 at the latest, so actions now are way behind. But I’ll give him credit that he’s doing something now. I’ll give him even more credit for doing so in such a bold and important manner.
The invasion is an existential threat. Anyone who cannot see that is likely not “sophisticated” enough to be reading any of my posts so I’ll stipulate that I don’t need to convince our readers about it.
But as I noted before, this battle is important because it may mark the moment many of us have sought for years, even decades. States have rights and few have taken appropriate actions to defend those rights. In fact, it has been Democrats and their assertion of rights to become “sanctuaries” that represent the most aggressive actions taken by states in recent years. Finally, we have a states’-rights battle that WE can fight.
And fight we must. Tyranny is rising in America and while most states are bad in their own right, they are far less threatening than federal tyranny. If you don’t like tyranny in your state you can move. If you don’t like tyranny spreading across the nation, the only viable option is to fight or flee to another country. For most of us, fleeing is not acceptable. This is OUR nation.
We have a unique opportunity to kill three birds with one stone. We can slow the border invasion, assert states’ rights, and send a strong message about judicial supremacy by backing Governor Abbott and others who will follow suit. Some are already showing that support, including the truckers who are on their way.
But we need more than just protests. We need legislative action at both the state and federal level. Obviously we cannot apply enough pressure to get Capitol Hill to pass anything meaningful until constitutional conservatives have control of both chambers. That’s not going to happen any time soon. But at the state level we can encourage and even pressure legislators to pass laws that will reassert the states’ responsibility to defend its people, especially when the federal government works against them.
You’ll notice that I said “reassert” the right and responsibility of the states. It’s already there. As Abbott noted, the Biden-Harris regime is acting against the Constitution and therefore he MUST act in defiance of both executive and judicial ineptitude to defend the Constitution and protect Texans. As General Michael Flynn noted:
America is being overrun by people from all over the world. Making the matter even more serious, in an increasingly dangerous world, the immigrants could constitute a fifth column.
In allowing this invasion, Biden has not just been inept — he is deeply corrupt. As I said, he is carrying out Obama’s plan to “fundamentally transform” America — for the worse.
What can be done? We need Texans to rally behind Abbott. We need other states to rally behind Texas. And this just may be a time when the people need to find a way around an obviously unconstitutional Supreme Court ruling.
We absolutely MUST respond by backing Greg Abbott and anyone else fighting not only the invasion, but also federal overreach and judicial supremacy. The outcome of this battle will reverberate for generations.
Finally, an article title that is short, to the point and makes sense.
All the more reason for Abbott to be Trump’s VP. Imagine that, a real border czar in the White House. Dan Patrick is more conservative than Abbott, makes it a win win.
You’re right, Obama is the puppet master. But Dr. Jill is his handler and she desperately wants to hang around for another four years. And, of course, Obama also wants another term so there’s some incentive there for them to step back from the edge.
Then again, if things start to look hopeless for Biden I can definitely see him doing something crazy to Texas.
“It’s irritating to me to hear people keep blaming Joe Biden for everything”
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He may not be running the show but Biden has spent nearly 50 years in DC. He knows full well what the effects of his policies are. Everything he’s done is intentional.
Joey...you STOPPED the construction of the wall.....what a dumbass
Don’t be a Putz. It’s the Federal Government that is in open rebellion against the States.
Well, things don’t look too good for Biden. I think he’s outta here.
If Obama is going to do something with Biden he’d better do it now!
BTW apparently there’s a truckers’ convoy headed for the Texas border. Do the Leftists, the REAL insurgents, want a war? Then let’s have at it.
“hopefully Texas has studied history. South Carolina tried this and lost.”
hopefully Texas has studied history. King George tried this and lost.
They have the right to be independent.. so did south Carolina and a few other states.Thats when lincoln said “ like hell you do”.
A Texas update on the biden admin attacking the defenders of the border.
Anyone thinks that he looks like Santa Ana?
Another special Texas winter edition for your perusal.
As always, please FReepmail me if you want on or off the Texas Ping list.
Blessings, and stay warm!
Thanks for the Texas ping!
Bravo!
Where is Valerie Jarret these days?
My family left Mexico-and the oppressive Spanish govt-before 1800 to live on what was the frontier/frontera-West Texas and NM-like all Tejanos, they fought being told what to do by Spain and their govt in Mexico, and won in 1821. and by the 1820’s they were joined by settlers from some Southern States and Germany who didn’t like the govt in Mexico either. So they got together, fought Mexico and won in 1836. You still don’t tell Tejanos what to do-we really don’t like it-we tend to fight back and like to win. My Gonzales battle flag-the come-and-take-it- is already up on my gate, right beside the Texas flag. Viva Texas!
Obama has ALWAYS been the puppet and he is NOT pulling Biden's strings; his handlers are!
Ace, what are the keys to the chart? I see red and grey. What do they mean?
Michael Berry
4 hours ago
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“Greg Abbott is having his finest moment on the border issue. He’s not defying SCOTUS or Biden, he’s upholding his oath. The razor wire, & bussing illegal to sanctuary cities, has forced America’s electeds to act. The dam is breaking. I don’t say it often, but bravo, TX GOV!
25 governors have now pledged support.”
“ I cannot IMAGINE the torment of being a BP agent during Biden’s time in the oval office.”
Yes, I think you are likely correct about the feelings of most BP agents. But this is a time for conviction and courage in the face of an anti-American, destructive and deeply corrupt U.S. government. They can show their true conviction and allay their torment by now refusing and defying Biden’s orders and siding with the states and the people. Now is their time of choice. Principle and morality over payoff and corrupt federal money.
“Obviously we cannot apply enough pressure to get Capitol Hill to pass anything meaningful until constitutional conservatives have control of both chambers.”
This part always cracks me up. Until DC is thoroughly flushed out, “We The People” will continue to get reamed by those deeply embedded in the bureaucracy.
We were told early on “A moral and upright people” for a very specific reason. Corruption has been reeeaaalll busy for as long as I can remember.
I readily admit that Abbott’s inaction (for the most part) and sometimes actions over the years has left a sour taste in many a Texans mouth, myself included having little good to say about the man. Somethings got Abbott motivated now. Gotta wonder what that may be.
Buckle up fellow Texans as this shindig isa fixin to git lively and too gud.
We’re fixing to play cowboys and liberals. This is the hill to die on. Time to saddle up.
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