Posted on 01/23/2024 1:39:42 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton vowed to defend the sovereignty of the State of Texas after the U.S. Supreme Court issued an order on Monday permitting Border Patrol agents to resume destroying concertina wire barriers placed along the Rio Grande riverbank.
The justices, by a 5-4 vote, granted the emergency appeal from the Biden administration which, according to the Patriot Post, argued “that Texas was — get this — preventing the Border Patrol from doing its duty. That duty, last we checked, was to keep illegals from entering the country.”
“The Supreme Court’s temporary order allows Biden to continue his illegal effort to aid the foreign invasion of America,” Attorney General Paxton said in a press release on Monday. “The destruction of Texas’s border barriers will not help enforce the law or keep American citizens safe. This fight is not over, and I look forward to defending our state’s sovereignty.”
Texas had placed the razor-wire fencing along the riverbank as part Governor Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star to offset President Biden’s “reckless open border policies” that created the ongoing border crisis, allowing record numbers of illegal immigrants and deadly drugs to pour into the nation.
According to Epoch Times, the Biden administration argued before the high court:
“Like other law-enforcement officers, Border Patrol agents operating under difficult circumstances at the border must make context-dependent, sometimes split-second decisions about how to enforce federal immigration laws while maintaining public safety,” Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar wrote to the Supreme Court. “But the injunction prohibits agents from passing through or moving physical obstacles erected by the State that prevent access to the very border they are charged with...
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WHAT IS THE OVER/UNDER ON TEXAS SECEDING???
Unconstitutional rulings are not lawful. Just like the left ignores the constitution we should ignore illegal laws or rulings.
…Let them enforce it.
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Their source: Charlotte Cuthbertson, Epoch Times.
Texas should keep the barbed wire in place and offer to escort all Border Patrol personnel, assisting them in safely crossing the barrier to detain illegals and return them to Mexico.
Biden thumbs his nose at the supreme court, why shouldn’t governors do the same? If they are talking specifically about Eagle Pass, Abbott should tell them they won’t stop them from taking down the razor wire, but they won’t let them into the park, they can remove it from the river or Mexican side.
ACB was a disastrous pick. But she did fulfill the female quota.
“WHAT IS THE OVER/UNDER ON TEXAS SECEDING???”
A cabal of RINO’s in the Texas Legislature are actively preventing secession discussions from taking place.
In Marbury v. Madison the Supreme Court announced for the first time the principle that a court may declare an act of Congress void if it is inconsistent with the Constitution.
“All laws that are repugnant to the Constitution are null and void.”
Marbury v. Madison
That would also include SCOTUS.🤬
So what are the Feds going to do to enforce the order? Nationalize the Texas Guard and order them take down what they put up? Send in US Marshals or the army?
Technically, SCOTUS ruled that the Border Patrol is allowed to remove razor wire. They didn’t stop Texas from re-installing or adding to the barriers already in place, right?
If the FBI can ignore courts and refuse a judicial order to turn over Seth Rich’s laptop, and if Biden can ignore the Supreme Court ruling on student loans, then Texas has the exact same right to ignore court rulings as it sees fit.
Just keep piling on the Concertina wire.
They should be planting landmines
A ridiculous ruling like this has me wondering if the the cartels have threatened some of the justices. Really.
Don’t give an inch, Texas !
Roberts and Barrett?
It was ruled by the SCOTUS.
Unless you are ready for CWII, then it is constitutional. Can still be wrong but constitutional.
For one thing. If I were Texas and the Fed actually succeeds, I’d make sure the whole damn state’s media is out there taking videos and pictures of the Fed ‘protecting our borders’ while they are cutting down razor wire. THEN, I’d make a bunch of campaign ads with them......
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