“President Biden has instructed his agencies to ignore federal statutes that mandate the detention of illegal immigrants. 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.”
when cannabis became a state by state issue and then healthcare such as abortion states took the hint and ran like hell with it
why is anyone surprised the states think their say can overtake federal?
biden, trump, and all the other presidents have either supported state’s rights or did nothing to stop states
why would federal be applied in texas but not elsewhere?
there are not raids in every medicinal and or recreational state or in abortion clinics in certain states
why is this different than the other cases where federal is ignored?
seriously asking because at this point nothing makes sense
keep hearing state’s right is just a propaganda issue but really confused
okay for some states to play state’s rights but not others
US is making that mockumentary from 2006 more real by the day
Ok. Swede here. What the f… did I just read? This was on a .gov site…
Can someone give me an ELI5 and a background?
Sorry this probably isn’t helpful but, it’s not just a .gov site, it’s a gov.texas.gov site.
Like thanks I didn’t know it was a government site thanks for that second one at the beginning.
Honestly, I wish Congress would draft up a resolution reminding Texas what they’d lose and need to negotiate for if they left the US, including demanding a plan to how they are going to handle the loss of US citizenship for their citizens and to destroy all passports.
Did this sad blob of cells just say that illegal immigration is an invasion? Did he just quote a dissenting opinion as a basis?
What the actual fuck. This sounds like something Orbán would do. Oh wait, they like the sound of that…
It’s also legal to cross the border and claim asylum, so not even illegal immigration.
Yeah, he’s using a reading of Art. I, § 10, C. 3 that only Scalia has ascribed to. There’s literally nothing in this statement that he released that has any kind of sound legal footing.
Even more interesting, Arizona v. United States literally said that the Federal Government and more specifically, Congress has an undeniable and broad right to establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization. Literally the case Abbott is stating and using as justification says the exact opposite of what he is saying in his determination. I mean literally it establishes that the US CANNOT have 50 different immigration standards.
So I guess Abbott is looking for more litigation to blow his state’s money on?
Supremacy clause is going to bite hard.
Holy hell that’s an escalation
Lmao please send the national guard to go arrest him god that would be fun to watch
Wow that is batshit crazy
I mean… yeah, this isn’t news though. “Come and take it” is more against the feds than anybody else, imo.
Texas has quite literally always held this belief.
It’s the exact stance they are using to not enforce any kind of processing at the border.
Dang, the USA might actually fall apart.
Just a reminder that Texas is actually moving in a fairly purple direction, politically. The rhetoric coming out of Texas could change dramatically over the next decade.
Let’s call this what it is.
A declaration of open insurrection.
It’s okay though, Biden will deliver a sternly worded speech just as soon as he wakes up.
Biden will deliver sternly worded speech
If even that…
Wouldn’t it be better if Texas tried to leave? I mean, I’m fine with it. They’ve got their own power grid, remember? They don’t need US, or, ya know… FEMA money.
not really. Texas has a relatively huge economy that we kind of depend on. As well as one of the major ports coming off the Atlantic (port of houstin)
Also this would absolutely fuck over all the not-assholes that live down there. Not, that, uh, I wouldn’t love to see that happen.
“We’ll just take our shit and go. and oh yeah, here’s the bill for the aid from the last decade we sent you. And, uh, also, here’s all the sanctions we’re slapping on because you’re a human right’s disaster. Cya!”
it would be worse, but, uhm… fuck me, I just want Biden to do something other than give stern words of warning.
I live within the aforementioned third coast and I really really need someone to salt the fucking earth for this piss-baby’s name. I don’t know how to clean house anymore, but someone in the goddamn federal government needs to take all these criminals running Texas seriously.
It doesn’t work like that. Source: The Tenth Amendment.
In other words, it’ll trigger a constitutional crisis like you couldn’t imagine and pretty much end the United States overnight if the federal government violated the tenth amendment and asserted itself by overthrowing the elected leader of a state. It simply wouldn’t be legal for the federal government to do something like that.
The sternest word “malarkey”
Meanwhile, in reality, Border Patrol is prevented from detaining migrants not by any order from Biden but by the fucking Texas National guard and state troopers!
We begin bombing in five minutes.
I am old enough to get your joke, and it’s perfect.