"President Biden Urged to Seize Texas National Guard - Joe Manchin Calls for National Emergency [??? emphasis added]"
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
While the word "invasion" that Texas Gov. Abbott used for the border is referenced in the Constitution, "national emergency" is not found in the Constitution.
"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 such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay [emphasis added]."
Activist President Woodrow Wilson was possibly taking advantage of wartime mayhem (WWI) when he signed the Democratic Congress's unconstitutional (imo) bill that permanently gave any POTUS the unilateral power to declare national emergencies.
In fact, Wilson seems to have ignored that the states have never expressly constitutionally given the federal government the specific power to dictate national response to non-wartime emergencies. And even if the states had given the feds such power, just like the drafters of the Constitution decided not to give POTUS unilateral power to declare war, neither would they give POTUS unilateral power to POTUS to dictate federal response to emergencies.
”The system of the General Government is to seize all doubtful ground. We must join in the scramble, or get nothing. Where first occupancy is to give right, he who lies still loses all.” —Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 1797.
”I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.” —James Madison, Speech at the Virginia Convention to ratify the Federal Constitution (1788-06-06)
”To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specially drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible of any definition.” —Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson's Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank : 1791
"If it were, in fact, an unconstitutional exercise of power in congress to pass a law establishing the bank, nothing can manifest the impropriety of over-stepping the limits of the constitution, more than the act which we have just noticed. It shows that the most unauthorised acts of government may be drawn into precedents to justify other unwarrantable usurpations [emphasis added]." —Article 1, Section 8, Clause 6, St. George Tucker, Blackstone's Commentaries 1:App. 262--64, 1803.
"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]." —United States v. Butler, 1936.
After all, since House uniquely has the power of the purse, Congress first has to decide to spend taxpayer dollars to pay for wars or responses to emergencies, regardless what POTUS advises Congress to do.
Again, POTUS has no express constitutional power to unilaterally decide the nation's involvement in wars or national emergencies imo.
The real problem with the invasion at Texas border is this imo. The corrupt, self-serving, constitutionally undefined political parties that have pirated control of state and federal governments are once again scamming the American people, this time by letting Biden get away with unconstitutional interference in the constitutionally enumerated power of the sovereign states to protect themselves from invasion.
Proclamation 1354—Emergency in Water Transportation of the United States (non-FR)
And that is EXACTLY why the PTB refuse to even hint at the word INVADERs, using 'migrants' and 'refugee seekers' instead.
Heck, they can't (WON'T!) even put ILLEGAL in front of the word migrant!